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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which stanches; specifically, a styptic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, stanches or stops a flow.

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stanch +‎ -er

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