stancher

From stanch +‎ -er.

stancher (plural stanchers)

1. One who, or that which, stanches or stops a flow.
   • 1893, Maturin Murray Ballou, The Story of Malta:

     a stancher of blood in case of dangerous wounds

• “stancher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• chanters, resnatch, snatcher, tranches