totter means A surname from German.
totter is pronounced /ˈtɒtə/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Austrian German Totter.
name
- A surname from German.
noun
- An unsteady movement or gait.
- A rag and bone man.
verb
- To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.“The baby tottered from the table to the chair.”
- To be on the brink of collapse.“[…]the folly of this Iland, they ſay there's but fiue vpon this Iſle ; we are three of them, if th' other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters.”
- To collect junk or scrap.