'Teeter' definitions:
Definition of 'teeter'
(from WordNet)
noun
A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board]
verb
Definition of 'Teeter'
From: GCIDE
- Teeter \Tee"ter\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Teetered; p. pr. & vb. n. Teetering.] [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw; cf. Icel. titra to tremble, OHG. zittar[=o]n, G. zittern.] To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
- [The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down. --H. W. Beecher. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'teeter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternate,
- alternation,
- back and fill,
- back-and-forth,
- balance,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- change,
- come and go,
- coming and going,
- cower,
- dither,
- dodder,
- ebb and flow,
- equivocate,
- falter,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flux and reflux,
- go through phases,
- halt,
- hitch and hike,
- limp,
- Lissajous figure,
- lurch,
- metronome,
- oscillate,
- oscillator,
- pass and repass,
- pendulate,
- pendulum,
- quiver,
- reciprocate,
- reciprocation,
- rhythmic play,
- ride and tie,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- rocker,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- seesaw,
- seesawing,
- shake,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shuffle,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- sine wave,
- stagger,
- stammer,
- stumble,
- sway,
- swing,
- teeter-totter,
- teeter-tottering,
- teeterboard,
- teetering,
- teetery-bender,
- tergiversate,
- to-and-fro,
- topple,
- totter,
- tottering,
- tremble,
- turn,
- ups and downs,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- vibrator,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- weave,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- wobble,
- zigzag