| 单词 | tottered |
| 释义 | † tottered, ppl. a. Obs.|ˈtɒtəd|
[Orig. a variant of tattered, and used in that sense (cf. Norw. dial. totra rag); subsequently associated with totter v., and more or less assimilated in sense.]
1. = tattered 2, 3.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1357/1 He..was not so disguised in hys tottered attyre, but that hys countenaunce gaue signification [etc.]. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 37 A hundred and fiftie totter'd Prodigalls, lately come from Swine-keeping. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 118 [They] have their wings tottered and torn. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xvii, The ragged and tottred Equipage of her Person.
2. Of a building or a ship: Battered and shaken, rendered ruinous and liable to fall; in a tottering condition.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 178 A tottered Tower doth challenge regard for the waste receiued in that places protection. 1649–50in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 221 Carpenter pulling down y⊇ tottered seiling over y⊇ East end of the Chancell. 1689Sherlock Disc. Death (1715) 26 Merciless waves even overwhelm his tottered and decayed vessel. 1808Scott Marm. iv. xi, Thy turrets rude, and tottered Keep, Have been the minstrel's loved resort.
3. Made to totter, shaken, reeling. rare.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xv. (1626) 317 The hot horses..O'r ragged rocks the totterd charriot driue: While I to curb their furie vainly striue. |
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