doiter

present singular third person doiters · participle present doitering · participle past doitered · past doitered

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo 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.

   1843, John Roby, Popular Traditions of Lancashire, volume 1, page 122