daddle

Definitions

1. To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
   archaic, dialectal, intransitive
2. To diddle (cheat)

Examples

“I had to wait⟳ an hour at the station for the coming of his train⟳. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.”

“"Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have⟳ the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get⟳ the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep⟳ what they got, and want⟳ to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want⟳ to know⟳? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick⟳ 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake⟳ out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."”

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