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  1. transitive verb Chiefly New England To strew or spread (newly mown grass, for example) for drying.
  2. Regional Note
    In 15th-century England the verb ted meant to spread newly cut hay to facilitate its drying. In the mid-19th century an American inventor produced a machine to ted the hay automatically and called it a tedder. Since modern English is inclined to make verbs out of nouns meaning implements or machines, the noun tedder became a verb with the same meaning as the original word ted. Tedder, a New England verb, also turns up in those parts of the Midwest that received settlers from New England.

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  • At the beginning of January their worst fears were confirmed when incriminating letters written by Wyatt and de Noaillies were intercep­ted, and by 2 January they knew they had to deal with a serious and widespread rebellion. —  TheChildrenof
  • Columbus native Tim Wilson, best known as a comedian, has written a book, "Happy New Year, - ted: Theodore Bundy and the Columbus Stocking Stranglings," with writer Roger C. Keiss. —  Ledger-Enquirer: Breaking News
  • And sgt ted -- I love how those of you who claim to have such respect for the military are so ready to disdain it when it is politically expedient. —  Althouse
  • Bus-ted: The bus arrives ... but the driver was soon told he wasn't required —  Home | Mail Online
  • He later posted a note on his blog that he "regret [ted]" sounding quite so sure it was the iPhones 'fault. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
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  1. Middle English tedden.

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  1. Early modern English tedde, teede; prob. a dial. variant of teathe, *tathe, tath (cf. sned, variant of sneathe, snathe, snath), from Middle English *teden, *tethen, from Icelandic tedhja, manure, spread manure upon (cf. Icelandic tadha, hay from the home field, tödhuverk, making hay in the home field), = Swedish dial. täda = Norwegian tedja, manure; prob. orig. in a more general sense, ‘scatter,’ = Old High German zettan, Middle High German zetten, German dial. zetten (G. freq. in comp. verzetteln), scatter, strew, spread: see tath. The derivation from Welsh teddu, spread out, tedu, stretch out (tedd, a spread, display), does not suit the sense so well, and is contradicted by the early modern English form teede.
 

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