ted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes
    Teddy boy.

WordNet

Ted transitive verb
Etymology
Prob. fr. Icel. teja to spread manure, fr. ta manure; akin to MHG. zetten to scatter, spread. *58. Cf. Teathe.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tedded ; present participle & verbal noun Tedding
Definitions
  1. To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
    The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton.
    The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

Webster 1913