[f. STACKER v. + -ING2.] = STAGGERING ppl. a.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, II. 363. Vp he rais into ane stakkerand stait.
1558. G. Cavendish, Poems (1825), II. 170. My quaking hand my penne unnethe can hold, So dombe I ame of doctryn, lame of experience, Stakeryng in style, onsavery of sentence.
1566. Drant, Horace, Sat., II. vii. I iv b. Thy stackeringe stumpes thy corsey corps at lengthe will hardlie beare.
1584. Hudson, Du Bartas’ Judith, VI. 51. Then each of them, with stackring steps out went.
1597. Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 213. O quhat an stakkering stait!
c. 1600. Burel’s Pilgr., in Watson’s Collect. (1709), II. 34. Quhat stakren stait was this to me, To be in sick obscuritie?
1872. J. Young, Lochlomond, 166 (E.D.D.). When staucherin’ fou He fell an’ brack his leg.
