stager

stage +‎ -er

• Rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)

stager (plural stagers)

1. An actor on the stage.
2. One who stages a theatrical performance.
   • 1994, Richard Beadle, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, page 271:

     Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints […]

3. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
4. A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.

• 'Gaters, Gaters, Greats, Strega, gaster, grates, greats, ragest, retags, targes

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• IPA^(key): [sta.ɡeɾ]

stager

1. a belt

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh