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tot⋅ter

  [tot-er]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to walk or go with faltering steps, as if from extreme weakness.
2. to sway or rock on the base or ground, as if about to fall: The tower seemed to totter in the wind. The government was tottering.
3. to shake or tremble: a load that tottered.
–noun
4. the act of tottering; an unsteady movement or gait.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME toteren to swing < ?

Related forms:
tot⋅ter⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. See stagger. 2. waver. 3. oscillate, quiver.
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tot·ter   (tŏt'ər)   
intr.v.   tot·tered, tot·ter·ing, tot·ters
    1. To sway as if about to fall.
    2. To appear about to collapse: an empire that had begun to totter.
  2. To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.
n.  The act or condition of tottering.

[Middle English toteren, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
tot'ter·er n., tot'ter·y adj.
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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. "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.
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Language Translation for : totter
Spanish: tambalearse,
German: wanken,
Japanese: よろめく
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totter 
c.1200, "swing to and fro," perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. dialectal Norw. totra "to quiver, shake"). Meaning "stand or walk with shaky, unsteady steps" is from 1602.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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