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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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