dally

To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power / To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause, / Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.

[…] after we by our presumptuous delays have put off God, and dallied with his grace; […]

To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans,

2024, The November Nethack Tournament achievements Dally with a foocubus

To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.

To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.