Dade v. t.  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.
  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.
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