dictionary definitions for "ted"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  Ted
      n : a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style
          clothes [syn: Ted, Teddy boy]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ted \Ted\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tedded; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Tedding.] [Prob. fr. Icel. te?ja to spread manure, fr. ta?
     manure; akin to MHG. zetten to scatter, spread. [root]58. Cf.
     Teathe.]
     To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as
     new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
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           The smell of grain or tedded grass.      --Milton.
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           The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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