STAGER, noun 1. A player. [Little used.] 2. One that has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of cunning; as an old cunning stager; an experienced stager; a stager of the wiser sort. [I do not recollect to have ever heard this word used in America.]
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI