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
Outflanked and outmaneuvered, Carol jot ted a note to Zizi protesting his eternal love for her and admitting the parentage of their son; then he dutifully married Princess Helen of Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he looked off that way, he saw eyes looking back at them, slit- ted eyes that glowed bright, reflecting back the torchlight.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Sherrock has been a pioneering figure in darts since she became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship when she beat Ted Evetts in 2019.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Our reporting shows that co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos had complained internally for months that Americans were spending less time watching Netflix and that the service was short on new hit shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The robots arrived accompanied by Ted Pinkerton, a founding engineer at Tau, who communicated with Bolo and Sergey’s human operators through a Bluetooth earpiece.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Last month, Netflix 's co-chief executive, Ted Sarandos, told the Bloomberg Screentime summit that the company was "not growing as fast as I want us to".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The woman’s voice behind me said, “It's a fox, Gerry! Ted shot one last week what he thought was the Beast o' Dartmoor first off.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
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
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 Sarah Tytler
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
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
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
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 William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
The tedding machine, driven by a farm hand, went between.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
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
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