What is "stomach staggers"

Stagger \Stag"ger\, n.

1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

2. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apopletic or sleepy staggers.

3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.]
   --Shak.

   Stomach staggers (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death.

n. Distention of an animal's stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion and sometimes death.