Totter

Noun

 * 1) an unsteady movement or gait
 * 2)  A rag and bone man.

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.
 * The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.
 * 1)  To collect junk or scrap.

Synonyms

 * move unsteadily: teeter, toddle, sway

Thesaurus
age, alternate, amble, back and fill, barge, blunder, bowl along, break down, bundle, capsize, careen, career, cave in, change, cheat the undertaker, claudicate, clump, collapse, come a cropper, cower, crawl, creep, decline, dither, dodder, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, droop, ebb and flow, equivocate, fade, fail, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall in, fall over, fall prostrate, falter, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, foot, footslog, founder, gait, gallop, get a cropper, get along, get on, go dead slow, go slow, go through phases, grow old, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jog, jog-trot, jolt, jump, labor, laze, limp, list, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, mincing steps, mosey, oscillate, pace, paddle, peg, pendulate, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, pitch and plunge, plod, plunge, poke, poke along, prance, quake, quiver, rack, reel, ring the changes, rock, roll, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw, seethe, shake, shamble, shift, shilly-shally, shimmy, shiver, shrivel, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, sink, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, sprawl, spread-eagle, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stammer, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, struggle, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, sway, swing, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, thrash about, tilt, tittup, toddle, toddle along, topple, topple over, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter along, traipse, tread, tremble, trip, trot, trudge, tumble, turn, turn gray, turn turtle, turn white, vacillate, vary, velocity, volutation, waddle, walk, wallop, wallow, wamble, wane, waste away, waver, wax and wane, welter, wheel, wiggle, wither, wizen, wobble, worm, worm along, wrinkle

Etymology
From totren:, toteren:, from earlier *undefined: (compare English dialectal tolter:;  tolter:), from  tealtrian:, from, from. Cognate with touteren:,  talt:, tolt:. Related to.

Noun

 * Finnish:, hoipunta
 * German: Schwanken, Taumeln , Torkeln


 * Serbo-Croatian: teturanje

Verb

 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,


 * Serbo-Croatian: teturati

Related terms

 * teeter-totter
 * topple