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
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
Paige was the first Negro Leaguer inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971, five years after Ted Williams used his induction speech to advocate for Negro Leaguers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
“I flew with Ted Williams in Korea. You knew that didn’t you?”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
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
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.
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
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
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas
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
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
The tedding machine, driven by a farm hand, went between.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by Sinclair, May
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