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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.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stager" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Stager" : stage, stage manager, expert, supervisor, oldtimer, veteran, old hand