Crossword clues for tottered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.-
To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: totter)
Usage examples of "tottered".
A moment later, the faint reach of the firelight picked out his silhouette, and then my wolf tottered in.
Then our minds parted, Nighteyes tottered after the Fool, stiff-legged but dignified.
It heartened me when Thick tottered out of his bed to come to the table for one.
As I tottered, for one breathless moment I imagined myself wedged in the crack, out of reach of helping hands and yet preserved from slipping further.
I got to my hands and knees and then tottered upright, staring around me like a new foal as I tried to make the ends of my life meet.
He reclaimed Weryl from the brass-bound chest where the boy tottered on unsteady legs, holding himself erect with one hand on the brass handle at the end while trying to step away.
The boy sat down in a heap beside one of the couch-beds, then pulled himself erect and tottered toward Nylan.
After a moment, he tottered upright, out of the tent into the sulfurous air that swirled and swept up the hillside.
Madame Flaubert whirled back to him, took a step, and tottered as her lapdog tripped her neatly.
The chair, unperturbed, tottered on toward the next person standing next to him.
His wingtips and claws trembled as he tottered back to his desk sling.
As Tillek jostled him, the tripod tottered and the distance-viewer, on its hastily rigged swivel, assumed a new direction.
They tottered and rolled chaotically in the dimming light, churning up the slough.
She was weeping fervently as she tottered out, clutching at a bloody wound across her abdomen.
And he struck again, again, as the fellow tottered back, fell over the line.