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
Presently allot ted no share at all, the Guild is demanding 1.2% of the gross revenues from such supplementary markets.
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
Exit polling found that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz beat Democrat Colin Allred by 18 percentage points among non-college-educated Texans in 2024.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 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
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 Cawein, Madison J.
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
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
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
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
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
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
The tedding machine, driven by a farm hand, went between.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by Sinclair, May
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
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
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