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▪ I. dade, v. Obs. exc. dial.|deɪd|
Also dial. dad, dawd.
[perh. the same as the root of dadder.]
1. intr. To move slowly or with uncertain steps, to toddle, like a child just learning to walk.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 8 Which nourisht and bred up..No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip. Ibid. xiv, But eas'ly from her source as Isis gently dades.
2. trans. To lead and support (one who totters, esp. a child learning to walk). Also fig.
1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. xxi. 108 The little children when they learne to goe, By painefull Mothers daded to and fro. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 18 A guide..to stay and dade them when they learned to go. Ibid. 399 Such he ought to enforme, to direct, to dade and leade by the hand. 1859E. Waugh Lanc. Songs 72 (Lanc. Gloss.), Dost think thae could doff me an' dad me to bed? 1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk., Dade, to lead children when learning to walk. 1881Leicestershire Gloss., Dade, to help to walk..‘I shouldn' ha' got home, if they hadn' daded me along’.
Hence ˈdading vbl. n., as in † dading-sleeves, dading-strings (dial.), leading-strings.
1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 13 His sonn..with his mayd to leade him by his dading sleeves. 1865B. Brierley Irkdale I. 259 He's nobbut like a chilt in its dadins. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk., Dading-strings, by which a child is held up when learning to walk.
▪ II. † dade, n. Obs.
Name of some wading bird.
1686Loyal Garland xx. ii, There's neither swallow, dove, nor dade, Can soar more high, or deeper wade.
▪ III. dade
early form of deed. |