stager noun. ['steɪdʒǝ] L16.
[from STAGE noun + -ER¹. Cf. Old French estagier (from estage STAGE noun) inhabitant, resident.]
1. A person with a specified amount of experience in a profession, life, etc. Orig. & chiefly in old stager, a veteran, an old hand. L16.

2. An actor. arch. L16.

3. A stagecoach; a stagecoach driver or horse. Now rare or obsolete. M19.

4. A person who erects scaffolding in a shipyard. E20.

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