dial. [app. freq. of TILT v.1, sense 3; cf. OE. tealtrian to be unsteady, shake, totter, extended form of tealtian (TILT v.1): see -ER5.

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Cf. a. 800.  Cynewulf, Christ, 371. Hu we tealtriʓað tydran mode.

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a. 1000.  Haupt’s Glosses, 529. Tealtrian, vacillare, titubare.]

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  intr. To sway up and down.

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1845.  S. Judd, Margaret, I. xiv. A bobolink clung tiltering to the breezy tip of a white birch.

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1895.  Kate D. Wiggin, Vill. Watch-Tower, 36. Butterflies … perch on the … stalks and tilter up and down in the sunshine.

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