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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Toppled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Toppling

[From

summit.]

To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.

Though castles

topple

on their warders’ heads.

Shakespeare

Verb.

To throw down; to overturn.

topple

crags from the precipice.

Longfellow.

Verb.

[from top.] To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.

Though castles topple on their warders' heads.

[This word is used chiefly of children when beginning to walk.]