Definition of stagger

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Stagger (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man..

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Staggerwort :: Staggeringly (adv.) In a staggering manner.
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man..
Reel :: Reel (n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel..
Vacillate :: Vacillate (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Garget :: Garget (n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers..
Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..
Staggeringly :: Staggerbush (n.) An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves..
Reel :: Reel (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger..
Stag-horn Coral :: Staggerwort (n.) A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea).
Stagger :: Staggering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stagge.
Stumble :: Stumble (v. i.) To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step..
Wabble :: Wabble (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind..
Straddle :: Straddle (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Tipsy :: Tipsy (superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling..
Wabble :: Wabble (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles..
Groggy :: Groggy (a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
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