单词 | tedding |
释义 | teddingn.1 a. The action of spreading out or scattering (new-mown grass) to be dried by the sun and wind. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field parchinga1398 tedding1481 making?1523 winning1844 fielding1848 windrowing1970 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > haymaking > drying hay tedding1481 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 226 Item, to Baker for iiij. dayes teddynge of gresse iiij. d. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv Good teddynge is the chefe poynt to make good hey. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 966 The process for putting it into cocks after the tedding. b. attributive, as tedding-machine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > haymaking apparatus tuskar1808 shaker1812 haymaking machine1826 tedding-machine1843 haymaker1853 tedder1877 wuffler1978 1826–44 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. 420 The hay-tedding machine, invented about 1800, by Salmon of Woburn.] 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 482 Mr. Wedlake..produced a spreading or tedding machine. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Tedding-pole, the long stick used for turning or tedding flax. West. 1906 Times 25 June 14/3 The old custom of tedding either by hand or by tedding machine is avoided. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). teddingn.2 local. technical. The action or process of giving a finely toothed or serrated edge to a reaping-hook or sickle. ΚΠ 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 55 The next operation [in making sickles] is cutting or toothing, or tedding as it is technically called. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11481n.21833 |
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