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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To be old and infirm; to tremble in movement or ramble in speech, as in old age..
Now, save on almous-days, when some half-dozen doitering old bodies get a snatch at the broken meat, not a man of us thrusts his nose into the knight's buttery, but by stealth.
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Doiter means (obsolete, intransitive) To be old and infirm; to tremble in movement or ramble in speech, as in old age..
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Now, save on almous-days, when some half-dozen doitering old bodies get a snatch at the broken meat, not a man of us thrusts his nose into the knight's buttery, but by stealth.
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