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An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in (w), ''Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened''

Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though

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(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
Bewilderment; perplexity.
The out|spacing out of various actions over time.
19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in (w), ''Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe''

I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.

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.Stock Car Racing magazine article on stagger, February 2009
The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane|multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
To 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.

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(RQ:Dryden Virgil)
(quote-journal)
To cause to reel or totter.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2)
To cease to firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
1708, (w), ''The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation''

The enemy staggers.

Doubt, waver, be shocked.
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
(RQ:King James Version)
To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
(RQ:Howell England's Teares)
(RQ:Burke Noble Lord)
Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856(R:Etymonlin)).
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.
To schedule in intervals or at different times.
One who attends a night.
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