tea'd

Verb

tea (third-person singular simple present teas, present participle teaing, simple past and past participle teaed or tea'd or tead)

1. (intransitive) To drink tea.
   • We tea’d with May, and had to wait over an hour for a taxi!1916 March 28, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, “Elizabeth”, in William Shawcross, editor, Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, New York, N.Y.: Farrar...
2. (intransitive) To take afternoon tea (a light meal).
   • The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]1877, The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette, page 38
3. (transitive) To give tea to.
   • And they’ve got Professor Hummums with ’em, the great Everlasting Star of the Nineteenth Century, which he has breakfasted and dined and tea’d and supped here ever since yesterday.1858, Benedict Cruiser, “Of the Agonising Process by which that which was once a Bower of Bliss was converted into a Cave of Despair”, in George Augustus Sala, editor, How I Tamed Mrs. Cruiser...

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