tottering : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tottering	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tottering
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tottering adj unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" Synonym(s): tottering, tottery (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"
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.