An obsolete or dialectal form of tatter.
To stand or walk unsteadily; walk with short vacillating or unsteady steps; be unsteady; stagger.
To shake, and threaten collapse; become disorganized or structurally weak and seem ready to fall; become unstable and ready to overbalance or give way.
To dangle at the end of a rope; swing on the gallows.
Synonyms and
Stagger, etc. See reel.
To tremble, rock.
To shake; impair the stability of; render shaky or unstable.