[f. STANCH v. + -ER1.] One who or that which stanches.

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1453.  in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. III. 9. Reddaris and stanchearis of euill and debatis.

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1611.  Cotgr., Estancheur, a stancher.

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1658.  A. Fox, trans. Würtz’ Surg., IV. iv. 320. This is the first and chiefest Bloud stencher.

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a. 1849.  J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 80. Friendship, stancher of our wounds and sorrows.

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