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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The dung or manure left on land where live stock has been fed. Also teathe.
  2. n. Strong grass growing round the dung of cattle.
  3. To manure, as a field, by allowing live stock to graze upon it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Scotland The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
  2. n. Scotland A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
  3. n. Scotland Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
  4. v. Scotland To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 3d pers. sing. pres. of ta, to take.
  2. n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. Dung, or droppings of cattle.
  3. n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.
  4. v. Prov. Eng. & Scot. To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja ("to manure"), from Proto-Germanic *tadjanan (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja ("to dung, manure"), Norwegian tedja ("to dung"), German zetten ("to let fall in small pieces, let crumble"). (Wiktionary)

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  • reesetee But most definitely not teeth. :-) Feb 27, 2007

  • chained_bear According to the OED:

    A measure of land formerly used in Ireland, equal to 60 Irish acres. Also tate.

    Scottish and dialect. The dung of cattle, sheep, etc. left for manure on land on which they have been pastured. Also tathe, teath, taith. Feb 27, 2007

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