Thesaurus / teeter
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A broad and massive teeter-board was brought in, and balanced across a support about two feet high.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTSInstantly King descended from his pedestal, ran over to the teeter-board, and mounted it at the centre.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTSAnd when he stooped over to pick up his child he turned into a sand-snipe, and the baby turned into a little teeter-snipe.
AW-AW-TAM INDIAN NIGHTSJ. WILLIAM LLOYDA few birds flew up from along the shore, some of them "teeter" snipe that had been feeding.
THE BOY SCOUTS' FIRST CAMP FIREHERBERT CARTERBut betwixt the pair of you you've nigh druv two old women crazy, and set the whole village a-teeter.
THE BRASS BOUND BOXEVELYN RAYMONDPresently the pole was so far over the edge that it began to teeter, when Pedro called to us to go slowly.
THE TRAIL OF THE BADGERSIDFORD F. HAMPThey teeter around on the stage and sing in the English language, but their clothes are peculiar.
NYE AND RILEY'S WIT AND HUMOR (POEMS AND YARNS)BILL NYEAnother dainty person who haunts these same shallows is the spotted sandpiper, the much loved "teeter-tail."
SIGURD OUR GOLDEN COLLIE AND OTHER COMRADES OF THE ROADKATHARINE LEE BATESIt was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you.
'MID PLEASURES AND PALACESJAMES MCKIMMEYAnd let's see—Peter Piper himself would be coming soon, would he not, to teeter and picnic along some pleasant Brazilian shore?
BIRD STORIESEDITH M. PATCHWORDS RELATED TO TEETER
- blew hot and cold
- changed
- deliberated
- dilly-dallied
- dithered
- faltered
- flickered
- fluctuated
- halted
- hedged
- hem and haw
- hesitated
- oscillated
- paltered
- paused
- pussyfooted around
- quivered
- ran hot and cold
- reeled
- seesawed
- shook
- staggered
- swayed
- teetered
- tottered
- trembled
- trimmed
- undulated
- vacillated
- varied
- waffled
- was irresolute
- was unable to decided
- waved
- weaved
- whiffled
- wobbled
- yo-yoed
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