Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine that spreads newly mown hay for drying.
- transitive verb To ted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which teds; specifically, an implement that spreads and turns newly mown grass or hay from the swath for the purpose of drying. See
hay-tedder (with cut). - An obsolete or dialectal form of
tether .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.
- noun Same as
tether . - transitive verb Same as
tether .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative form of
tether . - noun A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He opened bidding on a horse-drawn forecart fitted with a small engine that would power the spinning shaft of any tractor-based tool, like a hay baler or a rotary tedder.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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Jenny tedder, shows like Survivor will be in the column when they start up.
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Already saw Gossip Girl and it wasn't too bad. tedder
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I think the show should have ended the campaign subplot back before the real-life primaries started to occur. tedder
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Those Outrageous Moments shows are always fun. tedder
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Jerry was a nickname for the Germans, so the annoyed farmers would say that their hay tedder was “Jerry-rigged.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases: 2007
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Jerry was a nickname for the Germans, so the annoyed farmers would say that their hay tedder was “Jerry-rigged.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases: 2007
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Of other fowles their principal kinds are the swan tame and wilde, (whereof they haue great store) the storke, the crane, the tedder of the colour of a feasant, but far bigger and liueth in the firre woods.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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-- John C. Mills, Palmyra, N.Y. -- This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in combining two important agricultural machines in one (or combining a tedder with a hay rake), and it consists in the construction of the tedder and the arrangement of the same in combination with the rake.
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At eleven o'clock the tedder was started, and in two hours the cut grass had been turned.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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