▪ I. stackering, vbl. n.
(ˈstækərɪŋ)
[f. stacker v. + -ing1.]
The action of stacker v.
| c 1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. v. 1510 Make now noo stakeryng As in this mater. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 471/2 Stakerynge, in mevynge, vacillacio. Ibid., Stakerynge, yn speche (or stamerynge), titubacio. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. x. 229 Then must ye of necessitie be redy to do whatsoeuer I commaunde ye..without staieng or stackering. |
▪ II. stackering, ppl. a.
(ˈstækərɪŋ)
[f. stacker v. + -ing2.]
= staggering ppl. a.
| c 1550 Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 363 Vp he rais into ane stakkerand stait. 1558 G. Cavendish Poems (1825) II. 170 My quaking hand my penne unnethe can hold, So dombe I ame of doctryn, lame of experience, Stakeryng in style, onsavery of sentence. 1566 Drant Horace, Sat. ii. vii. I iv b, Thy stackeringe stumpes thy corsey corps at lengthe will hardlie beare. 1584 Hudson Du Bartas' Judith vi. 51 Then each of them, with stackring steps out went. 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 213 O quhat an stakkering stait! c 1600 Burel's Pilgr. in Watson's Collect. (1709) ii. 34 Quhat stakren stait was this to me, To be in sick obscuritie? 1872 J. Young Lochlomond 166 (E.D.D.) When staucherin' fou He fell an' brack his leg. |