"stotter" meaning in English

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          "text": "When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.",
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        "(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To stagger; totter; stumble"
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        {
          "word": "stowter"
        },
        {
          "word": "stauter"
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    },
    {
      "word": "stauter"
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    }
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