English Explanatory Dictionary

tolter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To flounder about.

Word forms

tolter tolters toltering toltered

Etymology

From Middle English *tolteren, from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Doublet of totter.

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