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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Teeter \Tee"ter\, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Teetered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Teetering}.] [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw;
     cf. Icel. titra to tremble, OHG. zittar[=o]n, G. zittern.]
     To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the
     like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to
     titter-totter. [U. S.]


     [1913 Webster]
  
           [The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up
           and down.                                --H. W.
                                                    Beecher.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  teeter
       v : move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: {seesaw}, {totter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "teeter":
     Lissajous figure, alternate, alternation, back and fill,
     back-and-forth, balance, battledore and shuttlecock, change,
     come and go, coming and going, cower, dither, dodder, ebb and flow,
     equivocate, falter, flounder, fluctuate, flux and reflux,
     go through phases, halt, hitch and hike, limp, lurch, metronome,
     oscillate, oscillator, pass and repass, pendulate, pendulum,
     quiver, reciprocate, reciprocation, rhythmic play, ride and tie,
     ring the changes, rock, rocker, rocking chair, rocking stone,
     seesaw, seesawing, shake, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shuttle,
     shuttlecock, sine wave, stagger, stammer, stumble, sway, swing,
     teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teeterboard, teetering,
     teetery-bender, tergiversate, to-and-fro, topple, totter,
     tottering, tremble, turn, ups and downs, vacillate, vary, vibrator,
     waver, wax and wane, weave, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wobble,
     zigzag
  
  

















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