Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dade \Dade\, v. i.
   To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just
   learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.]

         No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
                                                  --Drayton.

Dade \Dade\, v. t. [Of. uncertain origin. Cf. {Dandle},
   {Daddle}.]
   To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child
   while he toddles. [Obs.]

         Little children when they learn to go By painful
         mothers daded to and fro.                --Drayton.