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 (v): move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees
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about 1 year ago yarb said:

They had not the slightest suspicion of the trick; and were eternally dandling me till I was seven years old.

- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 5

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