totter

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOT'TER, verb intransitive [This may be allied to titter.] 1. 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. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean. As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. Psalms 62:1. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
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