DCHP-3

stage ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

place on a stage (def. 3).

See: stage ((n.))(def. 3)

Quotations

1956
They had staged over four thousand fish. . . .
2v. — Hist.

place on a stage (def. 4).

See: stage ((n.))(def. 4)

Quotations

1929
After the last of these trains had departed a brigade of sixty horse-sleds and thirty dog-trains was sent to the Beaver Hills to haul in three hundred buffalo cows previously killed and staged out of the reach of predatory animals.
3v. — Hist.

place (a corpse) on a burial-tree.

Quotations

1858
Mr. West saw an Indian corpse staged about ten feet above the ground.