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dandle board (plural dandle boards)

  1. (chiefly New England) A seesaw; teeter-totter.
    • 1910, The Civic League Bulletin of Newport, R.I. - Volumes 5-8, page 7:
      In this section were swings for babies, a slide and a dandle board for larger babies, and sand boxes for lovers of mud pies.
    • 2020 February 6, Olatunji Ololade, “This toxic underside”, in The Nation Newspaper:
      The dandle-board of Nigeria’s history has thrust the oligarchs upward; rendered insensate to citizenry travails, they render millions destitute, humiliated and bereft of hope.
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