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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Tottered

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Tottering

[Probably for older

tolter

; cf. AS.

tealtrian

to totter, vacillate. Cf.

to incline,

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.

To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.

Troy nods from high, and

totters

to her fall.

Dryden.

Verb.

[This may be allied to titter.]

To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; as, an old man totters with age; a child totters when he beings to walk.

To shake; to reel; to lean.

As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. Ps.62.

Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.