'Stomach staggers' definitions:

Definition of 'Stomach staggers'

From: GCIDE
  • Stagger \Stag"ger\, n.
  • 1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apopletic or sleepy staggers. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Stomach staggers (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death. [1913 Webster]