What does dandle mean?

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Verb
  1. To move up and down on one’s knee or in one’s arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
  2. To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
  3. (obsolete) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
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He longs for grandchildren to dandle on his knee through his dotage.
Strange that it should undertake to dandle such delicate children in its arm.
Nobody is talking, no jokes are being cracked, there are no letters to read, no dinners to eat, no babies to dandle or kittens to stroke: where is the probable cause?
No individual can any longer dandle the world at the end of a brush.
And if he had a little Harry dandle next Christmas, wouldn't he give him the first spoonful out of the marrow-bone!
Kneeling or sitting cross-legged, eloquently carved females dandle males who range from babies to what look like tiny adults.

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