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Teeter  v. i. & v. t.  (past & past part. teetered; pres. part. teetering)  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."





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"Teeter" Quotes from Famous Books



... rejoined; "an' as for Lois, nothin' ever did ail her but spring weather an' fussin'. I guess Mis' Field's well enough, but havin' all this property left her has made a different woman of her. I've seen people's noses teeter up in the air when their purses got heavy ...
— Jane Field - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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... If you teeter from side to side, or rock back and forth on your heels when you are talking to a man whom you want to impress with your stability of character, you will undermine everything you say by what you do. Of course you should not stand stiffly. Your ...
— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins
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... she went on smiling. "Loan me your pocket knife and a piece of paper from your notebook. If I cut out a rectangular piece of paper from this sheet and mount it on a pivot or shaft at A B, I can rotate it through 180 degrees, just like a child's teeter-totter, so that X will be where Y originally was. That is in two dimensions. Now, simply add one dimension all the way round and you will have what daddy is doing with space. He does it by shoving fifty or a hundred pounds of lead right out ...
— The Einstein See-Saw • Miles John Breuer
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... interested in them; and he had to conceal any little fancy he had about this girl or that unless he wanted to be considered soft by the other fellows. When they were having fun they did not want to have any girls around; but in the back-yard a boy might play teeter or seesaw, or some such thing, with his sisters and their friends, without necessarily losing caste, though such things were not encouraged. On the other hand, a boy was bound to defend them against anything that he thought slighting or insulting; and you did not have to verify the ...
— Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells • William Dean Howells
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Words linked to "Teeter" :   playground, tilting board, totter, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, move, toy, dandle board


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