∙ 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.
∙ A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers. veterinary medicine
∙ Bewilderment; perplexity.
∙ The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners. motorsport
∙ The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another. aviation
Verb
∙ Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
∙ In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. intransitive
∙ To cause to reel or totter. transitive
∙ To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. intransitive
∙ Doubt, waver, be shocked.
∙ To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. intransitive
∙ To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. transitive
∙ Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856 ). transitive
∙ 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.
∙ To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
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