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Definition of Stancher
1. n. One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.
Definition of Stancher
1. Noun. One who, or that which, stanches or stops a flow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stancher
1. one that stanches [n -S] - See also: stanches
Medical Definition of Stancher
1. One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stancher
Literary usage of Stancher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... into our dockyards to find steamers and sailing-vessels out of which to gather
makeshift navies, until it could find leisure to build stancher ships. ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Everyone knew that the English sailors had revolutionised tactics in the previous
twenty years; that their ships were stancher and handier, and could sail ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"Everyone knew that the English sailors had revolutionised tactics in the previous
twenty years; that their ships were stancher and handier, and could sail ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... was matchless in his speed, ' ' Than Tarras ne'er was stancher steed, A peerless
archer, Percy Rede; And right dear friends were they. ..."
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