[ UK /tˈɒtəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
    a tottery old man
    a tottering skeleton of a horse
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How To Use tottery In A Sentence

  • I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery. CHAPTER XII
  • Men who had witnessed his advent, noted that he was weak and tottery, and that he staggered over to a heap of cabin-logs and sat down. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
  • She was too tottery, too dazzled, too afflated to speak on the way thither, but, at the door, when with a bow I was intending to leave her, she bade me, in a madam-like way that cut off debate or refusal, to enter with her. The Yeoman Adventurer
  • His walk was actually tottery as he came down the port side of the cabin. Chapter 36
  • It'll be a tottery situation for a while but we'd be fools not to try.
  • We took a short provisioning trip this morning and, judging by the number of tired, ashen faces to be seen atop slightly tottery bodies, I'm not alone in my struggle to get back to normal.
  • 'Poor lamb, poor little lamb,' says Aunt Abby, standin 'over her, all kind of tottery, and tryin' to bathe her head with camphor. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural
  • Levine, 67, who has been plagued with health woes for the last few years and looked physically tottery at the curtain call, has resumed active duty this fall both at the Met and at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he is music director. Going for the Rheingold
  • But before ten days were gone, even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
  • I'm gonna buy me a little red dress and some tottery shoes.
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