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tottery

(adj): unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
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3 months ago qroqqa said:

She scorned the support of a cane; canes were for men, who were often feeble and tottery as early as their sixties.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album

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