leaden fever n.
(UK Und.) death by a bullet or pistol shot.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Rolling Blossom’ in Festival of Anacreon in Wardroper Lovers, Rakers and Rogues (1995) 180: The claret ran, it would not stop, / He died of the leaden fever. |
(UK Und.) death by a bullet or pistol shot.
| ‘Rolling Blossom’ in Festival of Anacreon in Wardroper Lovers, Rakers and Rogues (1995) 180: The claret ran, it would not stop, / He died of the leaden fever. |