ted
verb (used with object)
to spread out for drying, as newly mown hay.
ted
1 American
[ted]
/ tɛd /
verb (used with object)
tedded,
tedding
ted
1
British
/ tɛd /
verb
ted
2
British
/ tɛd /
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ted
1400–50; late Middle English tedde; cognate with Old Norse tethja to manure, Old High German zettan to spread, Greek dateîsthai to divide
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Gray-blue knit ted caps, oversize knit scarves, red snow gloves and robust black hiking boots with thick lacing accessorized wrapped-up looks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2018
Amazon users said: “Got this due to the mention in father ted, looks good in your collection”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
This demeanor had sometimes given his tenure the air of a five-month-long ted talk.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2015
"Awoke in a kind of vision," he jot ted in his diary in 1931.
From Time Magazine Archive
The air was wet and heavy, and shallow pools of water dot- j ted the ground.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
"There is no single 'personality gene,'" said Ted Schwaba, lead author of this study and faculty at MSU's Department of Psychology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
“It’s not great, but we get tested, and we haven’t had too many problems,” said Ted Gioia, who oversees events and fundraising at Arion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sam was also pleasantly surprised by the newest season of Ted Lasso, which bounced back after its previous dreadful season.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Other prime ministers' choices reflect their own personal passions – Ted Heath donated books about music and sailing.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Your wand’s here, son,” said Ted, tapping it on Harry’s arm.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
The scythe lies glittering in the dewy wreath Of tedded grass, mingled with fading flowers, That yestermorn bloomed waving in the breeze.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
To cure it thus, it is usually tedded once or twice after it has lost some of its moisture.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
Here, too, in all directions, the hay-fields lay, either in green swathes, or tedded, or in the luxuriously-scented quiles.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Come to the vine-dark dingle's whispering glens White with their blossoms pale; Come to the willowed weed-haired lakes and fens; Come to the tedded vale.
From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein
Crossing several fields, newly mown, or filled with lines of tedded hay, she arrived, not without great exertion, at the summit of a hill.
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
Then, satisfied apparently that nothing could be done toward the tedding of his hair, he rubbed his shaved cheeks, beat his forehead and his breast, and tore at the fingers of both hands.
From A Practical Novelist by John Davidson
The heavier the crop and the less drying the weather, the more the tedding that should be given.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
The tedding machine, driven by a farm hand, went between.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
You see, the scientific men and historians, and students generally, will not be wanted till we are fairly in the midst of the tedding, which of course will not be till the day after to-morrow.”
From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by William Morris
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