Falter /(?)/

1. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.]

imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering

1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.

   With faltering speech and visage incomposed.

2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
3. To hesitate in purpose or action.

   Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.

4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.

   Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters.

1. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.

   And here he faltered forth his last farewell.

   Mde me most happy, faltering “I am thine.”

1. Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.

   The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe.