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.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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I will dandle thy son as a mother may; And his lips shall lie where my own Son's lay.
From Many Voices by E. (Edith) Nesbit