Examples from literature

• I shall dandle a dozen of your young ones before these arms are withered. 
• I've dandled you on my knee when you were a baby, Master Jim. 
• Newborn, they must be given suck to, rocked in a cradle, and dandled. 
• Once or twice she stole a glance at the woman who had in the olden days dandled her on her knees. 
• The man dandled it like a new-born infant.