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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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Kneeling or sitting cross-legged, eloquently carved females dandle males who range from babies to what look like tiny adults.
And you'd love to have little grandsons to dandle on your knee.
But he still has time to smile at his wife, and dandle his daughter on his lap.
I have dandled your sons and daughters, Roberta, and may I live to dandle theirs!
No individual can any longer dandle the world at the end of a brush.
There have been times when it was fashionable for a grand lady to dandle a pet monkey on her lap or parade with it on a studded leash.

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