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
Eventually, as many as two dozen pieces of debris were spot ted floating near the disabled craft.
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
“That remains the case today,” Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says during a call with analysts, acknowledging that others will speculate about their acquisition intentions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Ted Williams hit .316 at 41 and Gordie Howe played 80 games and had 41 points in his final NHL season at 52.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ted gaped, for at that moment he first caught sight of the escort that at a sign from Merry now marched over the bridge.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas
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