staggy

Barley, immediately brought to the malt house from the field, rarely makes good malt, as a great proportion of it becomes staggy, and will not grow.

The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger

Choice large capons and ducks were in steady demand, but I blushed for my profession when I read that roasting chickens were running coarse, staggy, and of irregular value.

The Diary of a Goose Girl Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Presently, however, he had the nose-band on, and by force and persuasion together got the better of them; the staggy little furies gave in; and quickly gathering up his reins, he went back to the plough-stilts, where each hand held at once a handle and

What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

Presently, however, he had the nose-band on, and by force and persuasion together got the better of them; the staggy little furies gave in; and quickly gathering up his reins, he went back to the plough-stilts, where each hand held at once a handle and

What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864