dally

verb4

1. •
   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. — 1589
2. •
   To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
3. •
   To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

   • Mr Dombey in the meantime stood bolt upright in the carriage like a highly respectable ghost, looking on too; while Cleopatra and the Major dallied as two ancient doves might do. — 1846
4. •
   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. — 2003

noun1

1. •
   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. — 1947

noun1

1. •
   (New-Zealand, informal) A New Zealand person of Croatian or other Balkan descent.