Definitions for tottering

Overview of verb totter

The verb totter has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (4) totter

(move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The drunk man tottered over to our table")

2. toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle

(walk unsteadily; "small children toddle")

3. teeter, seesaw, totter

(move unsteadily, with a rocking motion)

Overview of adj tottering

The adj tottering has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (3) tottering, tottery

(unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man")

2. tottering

((of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire")