Crossword clues for tottery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tottery \Tot"ter*y\, a.
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady;
shaking.
--Johnson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"trembling, unsteady," 1861, from totter + -y (2).
Wiktionary
a. Tending to totter.
WordNet
adj. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn: tottering]
Usage examples of "tottery".
The momentary reflection of light revealed his prey, namely a frumpish woman in her middle years making a tottery way through the dark of the night.
They circumnavigated a continent of carved furniture, beneath tottery mountains of marquetry, past veins of veneer, lodes of inlay, eroded towers of tapestry and trapunto over sheer cliffs of stacked cabinetry, bronze fittings, and mirrored surfaces, all scaled and corrupted by time.
Tottery, white-haired, half senile, the mage had gone down the line of horseboys and come back twice before stopping in front of Gawaine and leveling a trembly, liver-spotted hand at his nose.
The canoe was down at the river landing, tied to a tottery post, and all I had to do was to go back and get into it and push out into the stream.
Even the tottery third-world economies were now solidly-based, whose children prospered in welfare states remote from the living-memory deprivations of their parents.