Dade /(?)/

Dade

v. t.
  1. 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.

Dade

v. i.
  1. 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.