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tottering

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of totter

  2. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.

  3. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The movement of one who totters.

      • Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tottering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tottering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at tottering

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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