teeter, seesaw, totter
(verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle
(verb) walk unsteadily; “small children toddle”
totter
(verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; “The drunk man tottered over to our table”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
totter (third-person singular simple present totters, present participle tottering, simple past and past participle tottered) (intransitive)
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
(figurative) To be on the brink of collapse.
(archaic) To collect junk or scrap.
• (move unsteadily): reel, teeter, toddle, stagger, sway
totter (plural totters)
An unsteady movement or gait.
(archaic) A rag and bone man.
Source: Wiktionary
Tot"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tottering.] Etym: [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.
2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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