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Webster 1828 Edition


Tottering

TOT'TERING

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ppr.
Shaking, as threatening a fall; vacillating; reeling; inclining.

Definition 2024


tottering

tottering

English

Adjective

tottering (comparative more tottering, superlative most tottering)

  1. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  2. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

Translations

Verb

tottering

  1. present participle of totter

Noun

tottering (plural totterings)

  1. The movement of one who totters.
    • George Moore
      Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train []

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