a. Also unstanch. [UN-1 7.] Not sound, firm, watertight, etc.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XVI. ci. 400. Who can lesse than smile that sees vnstanch and riueld faces, To shelter coylie vnderneath Fannes.
a. 1674. Milton, Hist. Mosc., v. Wks. 1851, VIII. 505. The Ships being unstaunch,… sunk by the way.
1896. E. A. King, Ital. Highways, 223. Not one [column] has proved unstanch through … the storms of these long … centuries.
