stride vs totter

stride

verb
  • To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. 

  • To walk with long steps. 

  • To straddle; to bestride. 

  • To pass over at a step; to step over. 

noun
  • The distance covered by a long step. 

  • A long step in walking. 

  • A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. 

  • The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. 

totter

verb
  • To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall. 

  • To be on the brink of collapse. 

noun
  • An unsteady movement or gait. 

How often have the words stride and totter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )