tottering — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.

2. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

Noun

1. The movement of one who totters.

   Examples

   Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]

Adjective

1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

   Synonyms

   tottery

   Examples

   a tottering skeleton of a horse

   a tottery old man

2. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

   Examples

   a tottering empire