To move along up and down, up and down.
1854. A lonely snipe came tetering up the rivulet.—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ p. 213 (N.Y.).
1858. A company of peetweets were twittering and teetering about over the carcase of a moose on a low sandy spit just beneath.—H. D. Thoreau, ‘Chesuncook,’ Atlantic Monthly, ii. 305/2 (Aug.).
