Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STA'GER
STA'GER, n.
- A player. [Little used.]
- 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. – Dryden. [I do not recollect to have ever heard this word used in America.]
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