What is "staunched"

Usage examples of "staunched".

Then the knight said to Sir Gawaine, bind thy wound or thy blee[ding] change, for thou be bleedest all thy horse and thy fair arms, for all the barbers of Brittany shall not con staunch thy blood, for whosomever is hurt with this blade he shall never be staunched of bleeding.

Then he bound the braceletted wrists with cord, cleared his weapon from its sheath of enemy flesh and staunched the bleeding that followed.

Then Galahad and his two fellows start up to her, and lift her up and staunched her, but she had bled so much that she might not live.

And then the flaming failed, and the fire staunched, the which many a day had been great.

And then Sir Launcelot waked of his swoon, and then the hermit staunched his bleeding.

Then Sir Lavaine dressed his hand and staunched it, and put upon it a glove, that it should not be espied.

And so they went both into the pavilion, and anon Sir Launcelot staunched his blood.

And when that I yielded me unto him, he left me goodly and hath staunched my blood.

And there they staunched his bleeding as well as they might, and great sorrow made Sir Gringamore and Dame Lionesse.

He reached back and got the tail end of a mining tarpaulin and staunched the blood and wiped out the faceplate.

The buckskin shoulder was dark red from the bleeding of the superficial wound at the side of his neck, long since staunched by coagulation.

On the floorboards Nefer was deep in the drugged sleep of the Red Shepenn, but his wounds were staunched, cleaned and bound with linen bandages.

While the two of them dressed his wounds, and staunched the bleeding from the deep cut in his thigh, his officers came to report to Nefer.

The bandage had at last staunched his wound, and under it a soft crusty scab had begun to form over the ugly puncture.

There was a little blood, just a smear of it on those silken thighs, but it had staunched itself.