stanch
verb (used with object)
to stop the flow of (a liquid, especially blood).
Example Sentences
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The canoe and pirogue could handle the packs and kegs brought westward by the files of Indian ponies; but the heavy loads of the Conestoga wagons demanded stancher craft.
From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert
It is larger than the common springer, and stancher, and stouter.
From The Dog by William Youatt
The Hardages also—of course you have no stancher friends than they are—have stood up stubbornly for Rowan.
From The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
He saw his son Kit more than once or twice in those days, and Kit appeared to be the stancher patriot of the two.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
She was of about 500 Ton, and Kidd told us at the Councel, there never was a stronger or stancher Ship seen.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson
