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tedded

tedded is the simple past and past participle of ted.

Meaning of ted

Verb

ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)

  1. To spread hay for drying.
    • Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN

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Adjective

tedded (comparative more tedded, superlative most tedded)

  1. Spread out to dry.
    • 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...
    • 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, →OCLC

Forms of tedded

comparativemore tedded
superlativemost tedded

Words formed from tedded

Questions about tedded

What does tedded mean?
Tedded means spread out to dry.
What is tedded the simple past and past participle of?
Tedded is the simple past and past participle of ted.
What part of speech is tedded?
Tedded is an adjective.

Words near tedded in the dictionary

  1. tedalinab
  2. tedanolide
  3. tedatioxetine
  4. Tedburn St Mary
  5. Tedd
  6. tedded
  7. tedder
  8. Tedder certificate
  9. Tedder certificates
  10. teddered
  11. teddering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tedded (page history and authors); ted (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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