Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolter
Literary usage of Tolter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"So from totter is developed tolter, still used in Northampton in the sense of
jog-, totter, move heavily and clumsily. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"To tolter, rn V. DICT. ... The tôlier of that passage is as follows :— tolter, adv.
Unsteadily, with tottering motion ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"(E.) Put for tolter, a form occurring in Clare's Village Minstrel; cf. Lowl. Sc.
tolter, adj. and adv., unsteady (not a veré, as Jamieson says). ..."
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