dial. [Early mod.Eng.: app. the same as MDu., Du. touteren to waver, totter, swing, touter a swing, representing an earlier OLG. or OS. *taltrôn (cf. oud:—ald), which exists in a dial. Du. talteren (Franck), = OE. tealtrian to totter, stagger, be unsteady.] intr. To move unsteadily; to flounder; to turn or toss about; to hobble; to jolt along. Hence Toltering ppl. a.
1529. More, Suppl. Soulys, 43. You walter peraduenture and tolter in syknes fro syde to syde. Ibid. (1533), Answ. Paysoned Bk., Wks. 1039/2. There lyeth he still tumblyng and toltryng in myre.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 76. From … dusty lane, Where home the cart-horse tolters with the swain.
