stagger

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
2. 2
   A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
3. 3
   Bewilderment; perplexity.
4. 4
   The spacing out of various actions over time.
5. 5
   The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
6. 6
   The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
7. 7
   One who attends a stag night.

Verb

1. 1
   To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter: In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
2. 2
   To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter: To cause to reel or totter.
3. 3
   To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter: To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
4. 4
   Doubt, waver, be shocked: To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
5. 5
   Doubt, waver, be shocked: To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
6. 6
   Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856): To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
7. 7
   Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856): To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
8. 8
   Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856): To schedule in intervals or at different times.