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Meaning
Noun
●
In Gaits:
An
unsteady
movement
of the body in
walking
or
standing
as if
one were
about to
fall
; a
reeling
motion.
●
In Veterinary medicine & Gaits:
A
disease
of
horses
and other
animals
,
attended
by
reeling
,
unsteady
gait
or
sudden
falling.
●
Bewilderment; perplexity.
●
The
spacing out
of various
actions
over time.
●
In Motor racing:
The
difference
in
circumference
between the
left and right
tires
on a
racing
vehicle
. It is used on
oval
tracks
to make the
car
turn
better in the corners.
●
In Aviation:
The
horizontal
positioning
of a
biplane
,
triplane
, or multiplane's
wings
in relation to
one another.
●
In British English:
One who
attends
a
stag
night.
Verb
●
To
sway
unsteadily
,
reel
, or totter.
In
standing
or
walking
, to
sway
from
one side
to the other
as if
about to
fall
; to
stand
or
walk
unsteadily
; to
reel
or totter.
To cause to
reel
or totter.
To
cease
to
stand firm
; to
begin
to
give way
; to fail.
●
Doubt,
waver
, be shocked.
To
begin
to
doubt
and
waver
in
purposes
; to become less
confident
or
determined
; to hesitate.
To cause to
doubt
and
waver
; to make to
hesitate
; to make less
steady
or
confident
; to shock.
●
Have
multiple
groups
doing the same
thing
in a
uniform
fashion
, but
starting
at different,
evenly
spaced
,
times
or
places
(attested from 1856).
To
arrange
(a
series
of
parts
) on each
side
of a
median line
alternately
, as the
spokes
of a
wheel
or the
rivets
of a
boiler
seam.
To
arrange
similar
objects
such that
each is
ahead
or above and to
one side
of the next.
To
schedule
in
intervals
or at different times.
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Origin
stagger
English
stakra
Old Norse
Sourced from
Etym
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Rhymes
Nagger
Gagger
Saggar
Dagger
Flagger
Stagger
Swagger
Blagger
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