tottering

(verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall. Synonyms: totter. Example: "The drunk man tottered over to our table."

(verb) walk unsteadily. Synonyms: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle. Example: "Small children toddle."

(verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion. Synonyms: teeter, seesaw, totter.

(adj) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age. Synonyms: tottery. Examples: "A tottering skeleton of a horse." "A tottery old man."

(adj) (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse. Example: "A tottering empire."