tottering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of totter

adj

1. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
2. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

noun

1. The movement of one who totters.

   “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[…]”