The word "totter" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to shake or tremble unsteadily, often with the risk of falling over. Example: The old man tottered down the stairs, using his cane for support.
Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water's edge.
In the summer of 2007, Peston's wife, the writer Sian Busby, was diagnosed with lung cancer, weeks before the banking system began finally to totter.
Correction to this articleA HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual.
Should Hamas totter, he warns, Gaza could again become a free-for-all for extreme militants.
The entire structure of metaphysics and theology seemed to totter under the rigour of Kantian criticism.
Barring his early exit, the least bad hope was that he would totter along, letting his government and prime minister stave off a total collapse of the state, while political attention shifted first to the general election due by December and then to the presidential poll next summer.
"Tittermatorter", for example, gave birth to the American "teeter-totter".Americans also share some grammatical constructions with their East Anglian antecedents: "You had better go to bed dew you be tired in the morning," says Mr Trudgill—"dew", or "do", in this case means "else"—is also used in North Carolina.
To compensate, the eardrums of O. ochracea are connected by a structure similar to a teeter-totter, which amplifies the small differences in the arrival times of sounds and thus allows the insect to precisely locate its prey.
Researchers copied that teeter-totter mechanism to create a tiny device that could be used in the next generation of hearing aids or to create adaptive microphones that focus on particular sounds or conversations.
On the "grass" is a kind of delicately balanced, S-shaped, transparent plastic teeter-totter — like a French curve — with three small meringues on it, and a larger white-chocolate soccer ball balancing them on a protruding platform at the very end.
What's on your mind?" Basker told him the folks in Norman were getting upset about the giant teeter-totter he was building to reach from Maine to Calif., referred to as the U.S. Interstate Bicentennial Teeter-Totter.
