资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stagger \Stag"ger\, n.
   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. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended
      by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic
      staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.

   3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak.

   {Stomach staggers} (Far.), distention of the stomach with
      food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in
      death.