STAGER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Stager

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/stˈeɪdʒər/ Listen

noun

Stager n.

A player. (R.)

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."

A horse used in drawing a stage. (Colloq.)

See images of 'Stager'

Etymology of 'Stager'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Stager" Quotes from Famous Books

... his brain busy with Ramel's warnings. He had just called him a pessimist, but inwardly he acknowledged that the old stager, who had remained a philosopher, spoke the truth. Woman! Why had Ramel spoken ...

— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie

... Beany had all the fellers over to Beanys house having a grate time and mister Watson Beanys father come out and plaid with them jest lika a boy and they had a lot of fun and then mister Watson Beanys father went in and dressed up in an old stovepipe hat and pertended he was a drunk man and he wood stager agenst the fense and they wood plug him with roten tomatose and cucumbers and nock his old stovepipe hat off and squash on his close and he wood chase them and tumble down and you never see sutch fun in your life. i tell you i was jest about crasy to go over there but ...

— Brite and Fair • Henry A. Shute

... I feel too nervous," I replied, not laughing at his joke, as I might have done another time, although the pun was a regular old stager, passing the yet unopened letter across the table. ...

— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson

... is a game we play with yearlings there, but we never try it on an old stager, because, you see, if one should fall he would be in the sump, or in a drift where the air would be bad in a minute. That was a big fellow, but he had a ring in his nose, which made me the more sure of him, and then you see there was nothing else to do. I will go to no more churches ...

— The Wedge of Gold • C. C. Goodwin

... mockingly, and involuntarily Vane frowned slightly. At the moment he felt singularly unwilling to be reminded of Margaret. And he was far too old a stager not to realise that he was heading directly for waters which, though they ran amongst charming scenery, contained quite a number of ...

— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

... La Ramee was an old stager, acquainted with all the traps a prisoner was likely to set. Monsieur de Beaufort had said that he had forty ways of getting out of prison. Did this proposed breakfast cover some stratagem? He reflected, but he remembered that he himself ...

— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere