tottles

Verb (1)

tottle (third-person singular simple present tottles, present participle tottling, simple past and past participle tottled)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
   • I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to...1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

Verb (2)

tottle (third-person singular simple present tottles, present participle tottling, simple past and past participle tottled)

1. (archaic, dialectal) To add up; to sum to a total.
   • It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum.1902, Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea, page 38

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