totter
verb (used without object)
to walk or go with faltering, unsteady steps.
totterer
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a word derived from
totter.
Example Sentences
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God be thanked, I am much better than I was, though something of a totterer.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
Often Meredith wishes to be too concise, and squeezes his thoughts together like this: and the totterer Earth detests, Love shuns, grim logic screws in grasp, is he.
From Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons
Else, past ripeness, deathward bound, He reasons; and the totterer Earth detests, Love shuns, grim logic screws in grasp, is he.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
