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
First class may give way to all-economy seating, and tourist accommodations may become more crowded as cabins are fit ted with extra seats.
From Time Magazine Archive
She studied me with eyes as ted as the firelight.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Beto O’Rourke had made a stop at the university when he was running against Sen. Ted Cruz.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
"With every case closure may we stomp the memory of Ted Bundy out," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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
Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos had complained internally for months that Americans were spending less time watching Netflix and that the service was short on new hit shows, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Knew they were coming for me,” replied mellow-voiced Ted, and Harry suddenly knew who he was: Tonks’s father.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
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
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
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
The tedding machine, driven by a farm hand, went between.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
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
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
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
Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
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