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totter
UK /ˈtɒtə/ US /ˈtɑtɚ/
verb 3noun 2name 1
Collocations
2VERB + TOTTER
spin
PREP.
around
Definitions
verb
1
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
The baby tottered from the table to the chair.
The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.
2
To be on the brink of collapse.
[…]the folly of this Iland, they ſay there's but fiue vpon this Iſle ; we are three of them, if th' other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters.
By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].
3
To collect junk or scrap.
noun
1
An unsteady movement or gait.
2
A rag and bone man.
name
1
A surname from German.
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Example Bank
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The baby tottered from the table to the chair.
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The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.
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The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.
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And she would whirl and spin and totter around, but she was still standing when Evil Eye Fleagle tried to lay her low with a double whammy.
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