dandle

Ropes dandle like a makeshift cape against her back.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

Buy your house and invite your mother-in-law over to dandle the grandkids on her knees as much as she likes, but don’t ask them to move in with you.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2016

And as I recline next to Lillian Hellman, I dandle Miss Kathie's adopted baby on my knee.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2010

Queen Min used to dandle him on her royal knee.

From Time Magazine Archive

She turns that into a tune: “A moth-er, a broth-er, a fath-er. A doodle, a dandle, a candle.”

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

The stately U.S. elm, which inspires the weekend artist and dandles the infant oriole, is in worse danger than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is never himself till he has discovered or invented a hero; and, when he has got him, he tosses and dandles him as a mother her babe.

From Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell

The more complaisant chestnut dandles its sticky knobs.

From Prose Fancies by Richard Le Gallienne

Then she dandles him in her arms, and packs off the pinched little hope of the family, so far as wishing can do it, to the domains of Licinus, or the palace of Croesus.

From Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by James Napier

He smiled whimsically, and presently one arm swept beneath her knees, so that presently he held her as one dandles a baby; and presently his stiff and yellow beard caressed her burning cheek.

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

David Jordan, 53, of Northwest Washington, dandled his 6-month-old son on his lap as the rest of his family played on a blanket.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2022

Angie dandled our infant daughter off to the side of the kitchen while we pretended to cook something for the camera.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2017

Ms. Cruz, 24, dandled the baby, Brandon, and offered juice.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012

And then we see Walt’s baby Holly, in a pink hat with cat’s ears, being dandled on Hank’s knee.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2012

I could see the stream where Denna and I had dandled our feet.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

And those who know Farage well understand his very human reluctance to see someone else dandling his baby on their knee.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2019

Moments later, Rick imagined him and his friends blissfully sitting around an al fresco table at Alexandria, eating a meal, with Abraham still alive and Glenn dandling Maggie’s baby.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2016

Som was on the cellphone with their older daughter, who was away at school; Niang, a teacher, was dandling their 7-month-old baby, their third child.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2015

Elsewhere, hugging Down syndrome kids on a rope line and dandling her own on her lap, Palin is downright inspirational.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2012

Then we sat on a stone, dandling our feet in the water and enjoying each other’s company as we rested.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss