stanch
(archaic) Staunch.
(obsolete) Strictly.
(archaic except poetic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
To stop the flow of (blood); also, to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
Dust stanched the wet and naked heads of the scalped who with the fringe of hair below their wounds and tonsured to the bone now lay like maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust and everywhere the dying groaned and gibbered and horses lay screaming.
To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
To check or stop, or deter (an action).
To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); to relieve (someone's) pain.
(obsolete) To extinguish or put out (a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
Of bleeding: to stop.
(obsolete) Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
That which stanches; act of stanching.
A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river.