Obs. rare. [a. late OE. staggon (12th c.) accusative of *stacga STAG sb.1
Treated as mod. Eng. by Harrison and later writers.]
A stag or staggard.
[1577. Harrison, England, III. vii. 108 b/1, in Holinshed. The male of the red Deare was sometime called among the Saxons a staggon.] Ibid. (1587), III. iv. 226/1. In examining the condition of our red deere, I find that the yoong male is called in the first yeere a calfe … the fourth a stagon or stag.
