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tottering |
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]: tottering adj 1: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn: {tottery}] 2: (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"
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