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dade
Part of speech: VerbTo teach a child to walk; to hold up a child by leading- strings while attempting to walk.
Usage examples "dade":- Since the coincidence had not struck him before, one might guess that he was accustomed to having Dade at his elbow when he was most needed. - "The Gringos", B. M. Bower.
- This was the case of Captain Francis Dade, who, until the Restoration, was known in Virginia as Major John Smith. - "Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17", Annie Lash Jester.
- I will send him back safe and sound in return for Dade, to tell the knights of Ely that if they know so well the courtesies of war, William of Rouen does too. - "Hereward, The Last of the English", Charles Kingsley.