■ verb
1》 walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.
↘ continue in existence or operation uncertainly: the treasury ~ed from one crisis to the next.
2》 astonish or shock.
3》 spread over a period of time.
4》 arrange (objects or parts) so that they are not in line.
5》 archaic waver or hesitate.
■ noun
1》 an act of ~ing.
2》 ( the ~ ) the ~ed arrangement of the runners on a track at the start of a race.
Derivatives
~er noun
~ing noun & adjective
~ingly adverb
Origin
ME: alt. of dialect stacker , from ON stakra , frequentative of staka 'push, ~'.