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Look up: stagger

  1. stagger
    [v] - walk with great difficulty 2. [v] - walk as if unable to control one`s movements 3. [v] - astound or overwhelm, as with shock 4. [v] - astound or overwhelm
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Stagger
    The 'set' of the wings of a biplane in relation to one another in side elevation. In positive stagger the upper wing is in front of the lower, and in negative stagger the reverse arrangement applies. Wings directly above one another are said to have no stagger.
    Found on http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/glossary

  3. stagger
    of a multiplane.The distance between the leading edge of a plane and of the one below it,measured parallel to the longitudinal body axis Category: Transport • the horizontal side-to-side displacement of a contact wire to prevent localised wear on pantograph bows Category: Electrical engineering and energy
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Stagger
    Stag'ger intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Staggered ; present participle & verbal noun Staggering .] [ Middle English stakeren , Icelandic stakra to push, to stagger, from staka to punt, push, stagger; confer OD. staggeren to stagger. Confer Stake , noun ] ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/181

  5. Stagger
    Stag'ger transitive verb 1. To cause to reel or totter. « That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person.» Shak. 2. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. « Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much stagered Howell. � ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/181

  6. Stagger
    Stag'ger noun 1. 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. 2. plural (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers ; appopletic or sleepy staggers ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/181

  7. stagger
    1. 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. ... 2. <veterinary> A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers. ... 3. ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. stagger
    verb walk with great difficulty; `He staggered along in the heavy snow`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Stagger
    • (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. • (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers. • (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. stagger
    To walk unsteadily; to reel.
    Found on

  11. stagger
    displacement of the contact wire to opposite sides of the track centre at successive supports, to avoid localised wear of the pantograph wearing strips
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/


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