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
Then, last summer, the indignant townsfolk discovered that they had been hoodwinked: the funds allot ted for their dam had been spent elsewhere.
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
A senior vice president and the chief financial officer will oversee operations during CEO Ted Decker’s absence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“It could be 1946 when you’re paddling,” said Ted Schroeder, longtime manager at Burke’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Is it just what happens to Beard when he’s away from Ted for too long or is there something important that has happened? We’ll find out before too long.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
That starts in the fourth season’s kickoff, when Rebecca, Keeley and Higgins journey to Kansas City to re-recruit Ted.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Indian emperors of the Kanva dynasty, Ted Bundy's assumed name, the winners of the 1974 Tony Awards: these things are bound to come in handy eventually.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
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 tedding machine, driven by a farm hand, went between.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
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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