a. rare. [? Alteration of stanched, f. OF. estanche STANCH sb.2 + -ED2.] Of a fish: ? Confined in a stank.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 257. So little a place as a Garden being like fresh-water, comfortable to stenched fish: so this to a prisoner.
a. rare. [? Alteration of stanched, f. OF. estanche STANCH sb.2 + -ED2.] Of a fish: ? Confined in a stank.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 257. So little a place as a Garden being like fresh-water, comfortable to stenched fish: so this to a prisoner.
