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adj. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.

adj. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

v. Present participle of totter.

adj. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

adj. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

"There were, in truth, moments when he felt in his turn an impulse, that was nearly resistless, to spring forward and awake the unconscious sleepers; but a glance at Ellen would serve to recall his tottering prudence, and to admonish him of the consequences."

tottered    tottering    totters   

walk    sway    shake    rock    move   

falter   

teeter-totter    topple   

shake    reel    lean    waver    sway    teeter    toddle   

Potter    Trotter    blotter    cotter    dotter    hotter    imprimatur    mater    otter    plotter   

shaky    frail    rickety    decrepit    wooden    stagger    precarious    gaunt    Wobbly    puny