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tottering
(encz) | tottering, adj: |
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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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" |
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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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