Stager \Sta"ger\, n.

1. A player. [R.]

--B. Jonson.

2. 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.'' --Sir W. Scott.

3. A horse used in drawing a stage. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)