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totter |
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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