bestem

verb

bestem

verb

Etymology From be- + stem.

1

Archaic To stem completely; stem all about; hinder.

Whence she might overglance the boundless boiling of billows, / Then she would rush to bestem the salt-plain's quivering wavelet / And from her ankles bare the dainty garment uplifting, / Spake she these words […]1894, Gaius Valerius Catullus, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus:

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