[f. STAVER v.] In pl. (const. as sing.) The staggers = STAGGER sb.1 2.

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1597.  [implied in staverwort: see below].

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1639.  De Gray, Compl. Horsem., 30. This preventeth yellowes, stavers, and such like diseases.

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c. 1720.  W. Gibson, Farrier’s Guide, II. xv. (1738), 56. That Distemper which Farriers call the Stavers, or Staggers.

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1749.  Lond. Mag., 277. A disease called the staggers, or stavers, in horses.

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  b.  Comb.: staverwort, the plant Senecio Jacobæa, ragwort.

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1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. xxvi. 219. Jacobea.… The countrey people do call it Stagger woort, and Stauerwoort.

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1707.  Mortimer, Husb., 187. Take [of] … Staverwort … a handful.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 1093/2. Staverwort, Senecio Jacobæa.

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