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Word entry · 7 letters

staunch

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"Firmly loyal"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /stɔːn(t)ʃ/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted achnstuStarts with SEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. stop the flow of a liquid

Used in a sentence

  • Yet if I knevv, / VVhat Hoope ſhould hold vs ſtaunch from edge to edge / Ath'vvorld [of the world]: I vvould perſue it.
  • Our Proviſions held out vvell, our Ship vvas ſtaunch, and our Crevv all in good Health; but vve lay in the utmoſt diſtreſs for VVater.
  • Hovv goodly, and hovv to be vviſht vvere ſuch an obedient unanimity as this, vvhat a fine conformity vvould it ſtarch us all into? doubtles a ſtanch and ſolid peece of frame-vvork, as any January could freeze together.

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