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English Dictionary: totter by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle
  3. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
    Synonym(s): teeter, seesaw, totter
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.
            [bd]As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering
            fence.[b8] --Ps. lxii. 3.
  
      2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
  
                     Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
                                                                              --Dryden.
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