† ˈstagon, ˈstaggon Obs. rare.
[a. late OE. staggon (12th c.) accusative of *stacga stag n.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.] 1587 Ibid. 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. |