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▪ I. tedding, vbl. n.1|ˈtɛdɪŋ|
[f. ted v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of spreading out or scattering (new-mown grass) to be dried by the sun and wind.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 226 Item, to Baker for iiij. dayes teddynge of gresse iiij. d. 1523Fitzherbert Husb. §25 Good teddynge is the chiefe poynte to make good hey. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 72/2 Tedding is with a Pitchfork or Pikill throwing it abroad out of those rows in which the Sithe left it on the ground. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 966 The process for putting it into cocks after the tedding.
b. attrib., as tedding-machine.
[1826–44Loudon Encycl. Agric. 420 The hay-tedding machine, invented about 1800, by Salmon of Woburn.] 1843Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc. IV. ii. 482 Mr. Wedlake..produced a spreading or tedding machine. 1847–78Halliwell, Tedding-pole, the long stick used for turning or tedding flax. West. 1906Times 25 June 14/3 The old custom of tedding either by hand or by tedding machine is avoided.
▪ II. tedding, vbl. n.2
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