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unˈstaunch, a.
Also unstanch.
[un-1 7.]
Not sound, firm, watertight, etc.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. ci. 400 Who can lesse than smile that sees vnstanch and riueld faces, To shelter coylie vnderneath Fannes. a1674Milton Hist. Mosc. v. Wks. 1851 VIII. 505 The Ships being unstaunch,..sunk by the way. 1896E. A. King Ital. Highways 223 Not one [column] has proved unstanch through..the storms of these long..centuries. |