swaver

English

Verb

swaver (third-person singular simple present swavers, present participle swavering, simple past and past participle swavered)

1. To stagger or totter; to walk feebly, as one who is fatigued.
2. To incline to one side; to swing.
   • 2015, Ann Pancake, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley: Novellas and Stories

     "I felt me swaver a little on my feet. Them winders was a-swimming, they took no reflection, they let in no night."

3. (obsolete) To decline away from.

Anagrams

• swarve, wavers