dial. Also 7 pl. stakers, 9 stacher. [f. STACKER v.]

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  1.  pl. = staggers: see STAGGER sb.1 2.

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1610.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 188. For letting the grissell mare blode for the stakers and giving her a drincke, xiiijd.

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1828.  [Carr], Craven Gloss., Stackers, The staggers, a disease in horses, &c.

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  2.  A reeling or tottering movement of the body, = STAGGER sb.

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1870.  J. K. Hunter, Life Studies of Char., xliv. 271. An attempt to ease the foot produced a stacher.

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1877.  ‘Saxon,’ Galloway Gossip, 358. He gied a great stacher and fell spraucheling on the floor.

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