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flash-lock

  [flash-lok]
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–noun
stanch 1 (def. 5).
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stanch

1  [stawnch, stanch, stahnch]
–verb (used with object)
1. to stop the flow of (a liquid, esp. blood).
2. to stop the flow of blood or other liquid from (a wound, leak, etc.).
3. Archaic. to check, allay, or extinguish.
–verb (used without object)
4. to stop flowing, as blood; be stanched.
–noun
5. Also called flash-lock, navigation weir. a lock that, after being partially emptied, is opened suddenly to send a boat over a shallow place with a rush of water.
Also, staunch.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME stanchen, staunchen (v.) < OF estanchier to close, stop, slake (thirst) < VL *stanticāre, equiv. to L stant- (s. of stāns, prp. of stāre to stand ) + -icāre causative suffix

Related forms:
stanch⋅a⋅ble, adjective
stancher, noun
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Word Origin & History

stanch  (v.)
"to stop the flow of" (esp. blood), c.1300, from O.Fr. estanchier "cause to cease flowing, stop, hinder," from V.L. *stancare, perhaps contracted from *stagnicare, from L. stagnum "pond, pool" (see stagnate).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: stanch
Variant: also staunch /'stonch, 'stänch/
Function: transitive verb
: to check or stop the flowing of<stanch bleeding>; also : to stop the flow of blood from <stanch a wound>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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