dandle
verb (used with object)
to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one's knee or in one's arms.
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For ten long days more Mrs. Tip Pulsifer chopped her own wood, Cevery went undandled, and Earl and Pearl and Alice Eliza carried the water that half mile from the spring.
From The Soldier of the Valley by Nelson Lloyd