dackle

verb /ˈdækəl/

1. To slacken pace; to hesitate.

   Sometimes we ran, sometimes we gaed; Whiles dackled on the way.

Where it comes from

Compare dacker (“walk slowly”), and perhaps compare German dackeln (“to walk slowly”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry dackle (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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