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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Moby Thesaurus

Lissajous figure, alternation, back-and-forth, coming and going, dilapidated, doddering, ebb and flow, fluctuation, flux and reflux, groggy, oscillation, pendulation, ramshackle, reciprocation, rhythmic play, ricketish, rickety, rocky, seesaw, seesawing, shaky, shifting, shuffling, sine wave, spidery, spindly, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetery, to-and-fro, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unsteady, ups and downs, vacillation, variation, vicissitude, wavering, wigwag, wobbly