Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Totter

Totter , intransitive verb

[Probably for older tolter; compare Anglo-Saxon tealtrian to totter, vacillate. Compare Tilt to incline, Toddle, Tottle, Totty.]

1.
To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as, an old man totters with age.
As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. — Bible (KJV) - Psalm lxii. 3
2.
To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. — Dryden