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third-person singular simple present tottles, present participle tottling, simple past and past participle tottled
(colloquial, intransitive) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner. quotations examples
I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.
1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
(archaic, dialect) To add up; to sum to a total. quotations
It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum.
1902, Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea, page 38
plural tottles
A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down. examples