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totter
(encz) | totter,vrávorat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Totter
(gcide) | 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.
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2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
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Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
--Dryden.
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totter
(wn) | totter
v 1: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The
drunk man tottered over to our table"
2: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
3: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter,
seesaw, totter] |
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teeter-totter
(encz) | teeter-totter, |
totter
(encz) | totter,vrávorat v: Zdeněk Brož |
totterer
(encz) | totterer, |
tottering
(encz) | tottering, adj: |
tottery
(encz) | tottery, adj: |
Tetter-totter
(gcide) | Tetter-totter \Tet"ter-tot`ter\, n. [See Teeter.]
A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also
titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
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titter-cum-totter
(gcide) | Tetter-totter \Tet"ter-tot`ter\, n. [See Teeter.]
A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also
titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
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titter-totter
(gcide) | Tetter-totter \Tet"ter-tot`ter\, n. [See Teeter.]
A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also
titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
[1913 Webster]Titter-totter \Tit"ter-tot`ter\, v. i.
See Teeter.
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Titter-totter
(gcide) | Tetter-totter \Tet"ter-tot`ter\, n. [See Teeter.]
A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also
titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter.
[1913 Webster]Titter-totter \Tit"ter-tot`ter\, v. i.
See Teeter.
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Tottered
(gcide) | 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.
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2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
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Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
--Dryden.
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Totterer
(gcide) | Totterer \Tot"ter*er\, n.
One who totters.
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Tottering
(gcide) | 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.
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2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
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Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
--Dryden.
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Totteringly
(gcide) | Totteringly \Tot"ter*ing*ly\, adv.
In a tottering manner.
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Tottery
(gcide) | Tottery \Tot"ter*y\, a.
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady;
shaking. --Johnson.
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teeter-totter
(wn) | teeter-totter
n 1: a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum;
the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
[syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter,
teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board]
v 1: ride on a plank [syn: teeter-totter, teetertotter,
seesaw] |
teetertotter
(wn) | teetertotter
n 1: a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum;
the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
[syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter,
teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board]
v 1: ride on a plank [syn: teeter-totter, teetertotter,
seesaw] |
totter
(wn) | totter
v 1: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The
drunk man tottered over to our table"
2: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
3: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter,
seesaw, totter] |
totterer
(wn) | totterer
n 1: someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall [syn:
staggerer, totterer, reeler] |
tottering
(wn) | tottering
adj 1: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a
tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn:
tottering, tottery]
2: (of structures or institutions) having lost stability;
failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire" |
tottery
(wn) | tottery
adj 1: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a
tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn:
tottering, tottery] |
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