tottered

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. [1913 Webster]

Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
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