Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ted
adjectivetedded (comparative more tedded, superlative most tedded)
comparative more tedded · superlative most tedded
- Spread out to dry.
Wide flies the tedded grain; all in a row / Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field, / They spread the breathing harvest to the sun […].
a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC1 more example
Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe / Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes / Adjoind, from each thing met conceaves delight, / The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine […].
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
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