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Definition of Staunching
1. staunch [v] - See also: staunch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staunching
Literary usage of Staunching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams: Being a Practical Treatise on by William Lumisden Strange (1913)
"To strengthen the ring the concrete of the foundation should be carried up outside
the masonry to the horizontal axis of the culvert. (g) staunching Rings. ..."
2. Irrigation in Southern Europe: Being the Report of a Tour of Inspection of by Colin Campbell Scott-Moncrieff (1868)
"... Means of staunching the Embankments— Elasticity of the Arch — Other Aqueducts
and Syphons — The Sesia Syphon — Employment of Prisme — Spurs in the River ..."
3. Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and by Jacob Piatt Dunn, George William Harrison Kemper (1919)
"Our means for staunching blood, and relieving pain are numerous. Much of our
preparedness in relief work is due to modern discoveries. ..."
4. Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset (1891)
"FOLK LORE—staunching BLOOD.—An old, but by no means obsolete, popular remedy in
the West, for bleeding ..."
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