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▪ I. ted, v.1|tɛd|
Forms: 5–6 tedd, 5–7 tedde, 6 teede, 7 tede, 6– ted.
[Known from 15th c.; app. representing an OE. *tęddan, cognate with Icel. tęðja, pa. tense tadda, in special sense, to dung, manure, prob. to spread (manure) or spread (the ground) with manure: see tathe. The more general sense appears in OHG., MHG., and mod.HG. dial. zętten to spread out, scatter:—*zatjan:—OTeut. *tadjan. The non-appearance of this vb. in OE. and ME., and in LG. and Du., is notable.]
1. trans. To spread out, scatter, or strew abroad (new-mown grass) for drying. Also absol.
Sometimes including the turning of the grass when dried on one side: see quot. 1669; but tedding and turning are properly distinct processes: cf. quots. 1577, 1616, 1746.
14..[implied in tedder]. 1481–90[see tedding]. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §25 Whan thy medowes be mowed, they wolde be well tedded and layde euen vppon the grounde. 1530Palsgr. 753/2, I teede hey, I tourne it afore it is made in cockes, je fene. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 45 b, The Grasse being cutte, must be well tedded and turned in the Sommer. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 500 After you haue mowed it, and tedded it, you shall turne it twice or thrice ere you cocke it. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 333 To Ted, to turn or spread new mown Grass. 1746Poor Robin (Nares), Tedding, turning, cocking, raking, And such bus'ness in hay making. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 624 In Middlesex,..all the grass mown on the first day, before nine o'clock in the morning, is tedded, that is, uniformly strewn over the field. c1830Glouc. Farm Rep. 14 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, The hay-making machine is put to work in the field to ted or shake out every day's work.
2. transf. and fig. To scatter; to dissipate.
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxi. 23 Thow held hir curage he on loft, And ted my tendir hairt lyk toft. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 228 Then fall they to al disorder that may be, tedding that with a forke in one yeare, which was not gathered together with a rake, in twentie. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet Lyly's Wks. 1902 III. 412 What foole more couetous than he, that seekes to tedd abroad the Churches goods with a forke, and scratch it to himselfe with a rake. 1788E. Picken Poems Gloss. 246 Ted, to scatter, to spread. 1813― Misc. Poems I. 120 (E.D.D.) Megg tedd the saut upo' the stool. 1870J. Hamilton Moses xi. 188 A day⁓dreamer gets hold of a beautiful..thought, and teases and teds it, and tosses it out into a cloud fine and filmy.
3. dial.
a. To spread out (cut corn or flax) on the ground to dry.
b. To dress (flax).
c. To arrange, tidy (the hair, a room, etc.).
1796Monthly Mag. Apr. 223/2 When the mowers went afield The yellow corn to ted. 1811Willan W. Riding Gloss. (E.D.S. B. 7), Tedding,..applied..also to the dressing of hair and flax. 1832J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 13 To mark the vale-hind ted the ripened shock. 1847–78Halliwell, Ted,..to turn flax when it has been laid on the ground to dry. West. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxviii. 306 Producing a black..pocket-book, and tedding up a lot of characters, bills, etc. 1887Jamieson's Sc. Dict., Supp. s.v., Ted your hair, and tedd up the house: West of Sc.
▪ II. ted, v.2 local techn.
[app. local var. of ME. teth, teethe.]
trans. To give a finely-toothed or serrated edge to (a reaping-hook or sickle). Hence ˈtedded ppl. a.2, ˈtedder2, ˈtedding vbl. n.2
1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 55 The next operation [in making sickles] is cutting or toothing, or tedding as it is technically called. Ibid. 56 There is..a peculiarity in the handling of his hammer and chisel by a sickle tedder, which it requires considerable practice to attain. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Tedded, serrated, indented. Sickles are tedded in order to make them cut better. [Cf.c1440Promp. Parv. 498/2 Tothyd, or tod wythe teethe, dentatus. 1781Hutton Tour Caves Gloss., Tod, to tooth sickles.] |