TOTTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tottery mean? 

• TOTTERY (adjective)
  The adjective TOTTERY has 1 sense:

1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

  Familiarity information: TOTTERY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOTTERY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

Synonyms:

tottering; tottery

Context example:

a tottery old man

Similar:

unsteady (subject to change or variation)

 Context examples 

His walk was actually tottery as he came down the port side of the cabin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink—two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest—and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: Bulk of treasure here.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)