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Ted definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TED, v.t. A spread; tedu, to distend. Among farmers, to spread; to turn new mowed grass from the swath, and scatter it for drying. [Local.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes [syn: Ted, Teddy boy]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (tedded; tedding) Etymology: Middle English tedden, from Old English *teddan; akin to Middle Dutch tedden to ted, Old Norse tethja to manure, tath spread dung, Old High German zetten to spread Date: 13th century to spread or turn from the swath and scatter (as new-mown grass) for drying

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also ted) Brit. colloq. a Teddy boy. Etymology: abbr.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (tedded, tedding) turn over and spread out (grass, hay, or straw) to dry or for a bedding etc. Derivatives: tedder n. Etymology: ME f. ON tethja spread manure f. tad dung, toddi small piece

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ted Ted, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Tedding.] [Prob. fr. Icel. te?ja to spread manure, fr. ta? manure; akin to MHG. zetten to scatter, spread. [root]58. Cf. Teathe.] To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. --Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. --Coleridge.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Teds) A Ted is the same as a Teddy boy. (BRIT INFORMAL) N-COUNT