stanch
verb (used with object)
to stop the flow of (a liquid, especially blood).
Example Sentences
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We had learned to understand each other well, and no man ever had a stancher comrade than I had in Mishka Pavloff.
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
Miss Aubrey was an immense favourite at Aireyholme, but among all the girls she had no stancher and more whole-hearted admirer than Githa Hamilton.
From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil
It is larger than the common springer, and stancher, and stouter.
From The Dog by William Youatt
"Never was a stancher heart than thine, Caillette, or a truer friend."
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
I made some stanch friends in those days, but never a stancher, truer one than Dicky Graham.
From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison
