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
She studied me with eyes as ted as the firelight.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Co-CEO Ted Sarandos dropped his undeniable embrace of AI in a letter to shareholders before last week’s earnings call.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos struck a similar note when presenting the company's results in mid-July: "We're making higher quality output more quickly and efficiently than we could have using traditional methods."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
But what’s happened since is so shocking that you’d be forgiven for wondering if Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski had been cloned in a lab at MIT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
After getting a pep talk from Ted Lasso and his assistant coach Beard, Bieber changed the pace of the otherwise energetic performances with an acoustic guitar version of 'Everything Hallelujah'.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
I reminded myself that Ted knew about the premonitions.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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 Ainsworth, William Harrison
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 Turnbull, Robert
As she was returning, her eye fell on the folds of an object fluttering among the tedded grass.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Tytler, Sarah
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 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
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 Shaw, Thomas
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 Davidson, John
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 Shaw, Thomas
When tedding of the hay, Bareheaded on the green, Love midst her locks did play, And wantoned in her een.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas
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 Morris, William
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