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Definition of Stagged
1. stag [v] - See also: stag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagged
Literary usage of Stagged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"stagged-UP, participial phrase, exhausted. Cf. Scotch sleek, E. stick, verb,
stuck, ie stuck fast. WAUGH. 1866. " Is that one of thy childer at sits atop o' ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"Poisoned oats—vet. there who stagged the trick—no go. Back Locomotive, he's sure
to win ; and I'm glad of it, ..."
3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"Swift looked upon a stagged tree, and said of himself, ' I shall die like that
tree, at the top.' The case of Swift is the case of Turkey. ..."
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