The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dade \Dade\, v. i.
To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just
learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.]
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No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
--Drayton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
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Little children when they learn to go
By painful mothers daded to and fro. --Drayton.
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