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
Where are the blithe and jocund to ted the hay?
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to then I had been just another among all of the conked and zoo ted youngsters.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Beto O’Rourke had made a stop at the university when he was running against Sen. Ted Cruz.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Technology-portfolio mangers are treading carefully with tech these days, retail investors should be just as cautious, says industry veteran Ted Mortonson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
In a six-decade career, he took on film and television roles, appearing in the film Mash, A River Runs Through It and Ted.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Each house was a battle,” he said, particularly one where the owners had an issue with guitarist and outdoorsman Ted Nugent, who accidentally shot an arrow into their yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I met with Ted Williams once,” Braden says.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
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
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
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
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 William Morris
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