'Totter' definitions:
Definition of 'totter'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Totter'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'totter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- age,
- alternate,
- amble,
- back and fill,
- barge,
- blunder,
- bowl along,
- break down,
- bundle,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- cave in,
- change,
- cheat the undertaker,
- claudicate,
- clump,
- collapse,
- come a cropper,
- cower,
- crawl,
- creep,
- decline,
- dither,
- dodder,
- dogtrot,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag out,
- droop,
- ebb and flow,
- equivocate,
- fade,
- fail,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall in,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- falter,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- foot,
- footslog,
- founder,
- gait,
- gallop,
- get a cropper,
- get along,
- get on,
- go dead slow,
- go slow,
- go through phases,
- grow old,
- halt,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hop,
- idle,
- inch,
- inch along,
- jog,
- jog-trot,
- jolt,
- jump,
- labor,
- laze,
- limp,
- list,
- lock step,
- lumber,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- mosey,
- oscillate,
- pace,
- paddle,
- peg,
- pendulate,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- plod,
- plunge,
- poke,
- poke along,
- prance,
- quake,
- quiver,
- rack,
- reel,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- seesaw,
- seethe,
- shake,
- shamble,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shimmy,
- shiver,
- shrivel,
- shuffle,
- shuffle along,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- sink,
- skip,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stagger,
- stagger along,
- stalk,
- stammer,
- stamp,
- step,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- struggle,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- swagger,
- sway,
- swing,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tergiversate,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- toddle along,
- topple,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter along,
- traipse,
- tread,
- tremble,
- trip,
- trot,
- trudge,
- tumble,
- turn,
- turn gray,
- turn turtle,
- turn white,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- velocity,
- volutation,
- waddle,
- walk,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wamble,
- wane,
- waste away,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- welter,
- wheel,
- wiggle,
- wither,
- wizen,
- wobble,
- worm,
- worm along,
- wrinkle