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Dade vs Gade - What's the difference?

dade | gade |

As a verb dade

is to walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.

As a proper noun Dade

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As a noun gade is

any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and genus: Motella.

dade

English

Verb

(dad)
  • (obsolete) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
  • * Drayton
  • No sooner taught to dade , but from their mother trip.
  • (obsolete) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
  • * Drayton
  • Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    gade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and .
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
  • Synonyms

    * (pike) gead (Webster 1913)

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