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Totter   /tˈɑtər/   Listen
verb
Totter  v. i.  (past & past part. tottered; pres. part. tottering)  
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."
2.
To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. "Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall."





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"Totter" Quotes from Famous Books



... skin drawn tight over his face, his eyes watery and aged, his head slightly nodding. 'How altered from the fresh old man after Saturday's hunting,' says Haydon. 'It affected me. He looked like an aged eagle beginning to totter from its perch.' A second sitting in the afternoon concluded the business, and early next morning Haydon left for town. 'It is curious,' he comments, 'to have known thus the two great heads of the two great parties, the Duke and Lord Grey. I prefer the Duke infinitely. He is more manly, has ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston
... of the unfortunate Agnes, as she was stooping to recover the dropped knife, came Mistress Winter's hand, with sufficient heaviness to make her grow white and totter ere she could recover ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt
... Not only were the effects of the drug plainly evident on her face, but it was apparent that the snuffing the powdered tablets was destroying the bones in her nose, through shrinkage of the blood vessels, as well as undermining the nervous system and causing the brain to totter. ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... on credit by false pretences, and sells them for ready money at any price, in order to make up a purse. This name is derived from the German word SCHWINDLIN, to totter, to be ready to fall; these arts being generally practised by persons on the totter, or just ready to break. The term SWINDLER has since been used to signify ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... feeble strength gave out, the limbs began to totter, and staggering backward she ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes


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