tottery

tottery
    adj 1: unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a
           tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn:
           {tottering}, {tottery}]
    

Tottery \Tot"ter*y\, a.
   Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady;
   shaking. --Johnson.
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "tottery":
      anile, battered, beat-up, beaten up, broken-down, crabbed,
      debilitated, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, doddered, doddering,
      doddery, doubtful, dubious, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
      groggy, in ruins, infirm, insecure, mossbacked, moth-eaten,
      mummylike, palsied, papery-skinned, ramshackle, ravaged with age,
      ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run-down,
      rusty, senile, shaky, shriveled, slummy, spidery, spindly,
      stricken in years, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering,
      treacherous, tumbledown, uncertain, undependable, unhealthy,
      unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady,
      unsure, untrustworthy, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly