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Webster 1913 Edition
Stager
Sta′ger
(stā′jẽr)
, Noun.
1.
A player.
[R.]
B. Jonson.
2.
One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
“You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there.” Sir W. Scott.
3.
A horse used in drawing a stage.
[Colloq.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Stager
STAGER
,Noun.
1.
A player. [Little used.]2.
One that has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of cunning; as an old cunning stager; an experienced stager; a stager of the wiser sort.[I do not recollect to have ever heard this word used in America.]