Teetering

Teeter \Tee"ter\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Teetered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Teetering}.] [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw;
   cf. Icel. titra to tremble, OHG. zittar[=o]n, G. zittern.]
   To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the
   like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to
   titter-totter. [U. S.]
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         [The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up
         and down.                                --H. W.
                                                  Beecher.
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "teetering":
      Lissajous figure, alternation, back-and-forth, coming and going,
      dilapidated, doddering, ebb and flow, fluctuation, flux and reflux,
      groggy, oscillation, pendulation, ramshackle, reciprocation,
      rhythmic play, ricketish, rickety, rocky, seesaw, seesawing, shaky,
      shifting, shuffling, sine wave, spidery, spindly, teeter,
      teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetery, to-and-fro, tottering,
      tottery, tumbledown, unsteady, ups and downs, vacillation,
      variation, vicissitude, wavering, wigwag, wobbly