Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dade

Dade , transitive verb

[Of. uncertain origin. Compare Dandle, Daddle.]

To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obsolete]
Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. — Drayton

Dade , intransitive verb

To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obsolete]
No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip. — Drayton