Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dade"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dade \Dade\, v. i.
To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just
learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.]
No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
--Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dade \Dade\, v. t. [Of. uncertain origin. Cf. {Dandle},
{Daddle}.]
To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child
while he toddles. [Obs.]
Little children when they learn to go By painful
mothers daded to and fro. --Drayton.
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