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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Totter  \Tot"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tottered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Tottering}.]  [Probably  for  older  tolter;  cf  AS 
  tealtrian  to  totter,  vacillate.  Cf.{Tilt}  to  incline, 
  {Toddle},  {Tottle},  {Totty}.] 
  1.  To  shake  so  as  to  threaten  a  fall;  to  vacillate;  to  be 
  unsteady;  to  stagger;  as,an  old  man  totters  with  age.  ``As 
  a  bowing  wall  shall  ye  be  and  as  a  tottering  fence.'' 
  --Ps.  lxii.  3. 
 
  2.  To  shake;  to  reel;  to  lean;  to  waver. 
 
  Troy  nods  from  high,  and  totters  to  her  fall. 
  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  totter 
  v  1:  move  without  being  stable,  as  if  threatening  to  fall 
  2:  walk  unsteadily,  as  of  small  children  [syn:  {toddle},  {coggle}, 
  {dodder},  {paddle},  {waddle}] 
  3:  move  unsteadily,  with  a  rocking  motion  [syn:  {teeter},  {seesaw}] 




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