tedding

In the next field, which the mowers had but just cut, the men were 'tedding' -- _i. e.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867

*LJ spellcheck doesn't recognize "tedding" as a word.

Thursday roadkill report jhetley 2006

Then we raked up every straggling blade, till the whole field was a clean floor for the tedding and the carrying of the hay next morning.

The Mowing of a Field 2008

Some of the farmers have started haying -- tedding* cut hay in one field, baler parked in another, but with thunderstorms forecast for today and the next few days, they are pushing the edge.

Thursday roadkill report jhetley 2006

Mostly mowing or tedding turning and fluffing the drying hay, for you city folks but a few places chopping the stuff for haylage.

Make hay while the sun shines jhetley 2004

Then we raked up every straggling blade, till the whole field was a clean floor for the tedding and the carrying of the hay next morning.

The Mowing of a Field 1921

Then we raked up every straggling blade, till the whole field was a clean floor for the tedding and the carrying of the hay next morning.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

Though the hay-tedding machine was invented in 1814 it is only during the last thirty years that its use has become common, the spread of the mowing machine making it a necessity, cutting the grass so fast that only a very large number of men with the old forks could keep up with it.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient.

Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880

The heavier the crop and the less drying the weather, the more the tedding that should be given.

Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880