bleeder

  1. Noun.  A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
  2. Noun.  Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
  3. Noun.  A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
  4. Noun.  (UK, slang) A troublesome fellow; a blighter.

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