Definitions for stanches

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stanches stanch

Spelling: [stawnch, stanch, stahnch]

IPA: /stɔntʃ, stæntʃ, stɑntʃ/

Stanches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 350 anagrams from letters in stanches (acehnsst).

Definitions for stanches

noun

1. Also called flash-lock, navigation weir. a lock that, after being partially emptied, is opened suddenly to send a boat over a shallow place with a rush of water.

adjective

1. staunch2 .

verb (used with object)

1. to stop the flow of (a liquid, especially blood).
2. to stop the flow of blood or other liquid from (a wound, leak, etc.).
3. Archaic. to check, allay, or extinguish.

verb (used without object)

1. to stop flowing, as blood; be stanched.

Origin of stanches

1275-1325; Middle English stanchen, staunchen (v.) Old French estanchier to close, stop, slake (thirst) Vulgar Latin *stanticāre, equivalent to Latin stant- (stem of stāns, present participle

Examples for stanches

In a swift move to stanch the controversy, Governor Rockefeller demanded the piece be removed.

A neighbor tried in vain to stanch the bleeding with a towel.

After all, he was a stanch friend, and he braved no common dangers in his pursuit.

The Forward will be a stanch ship and she will carry good engines.

Seating him on the cart, she proceeded to stanch the bleeding with the edge of her gown.

The Obama administration began 2009 with an aggressive stimulus to stanch the rapid deterioration of the economy.

But Clapper  has also failed fundamentally to stanch the leakage of secrets so emblematic of his tenure atop the community.

She was a stanch five-year-old, and she had roamed the mountains about Pop's place at will.

She reserved articles she presented to her stanch friend, Kate O'Brien.

Meanwhile we laid him on his bed, and I did what I could to stanch the bleeding and ease his suffering.