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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To strew or spread (newly mown grass, for example) for drying.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Scotch form of toad.
  • To turn over and spread out to the air to dry: as, to ted new-mown grass or hay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun teddy boy
  • verb To spread hay for drying

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English tedden.]

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