Tedding

In the next field, which the mowers had but just cut, the men were 'tedding' -- _i. e. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

*LJ spellcheck doesn't recognize "tedding" as a word. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Jhetley (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient. ❋ Thomas Shaw (1880)

The heavier the crop and the less drying the weather, the more the tedding that should be given. ❋ Thomas Shaw (1880)

With sufficient ox-power to do the work easily, the whole transportation of tools and men, and all the hay-tedding and hay-raking, would be easily done by one horse, with leeway enough to allow for a fair amount of business or pleasure travel. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Earl John; and one forenoon, riding or walking out together, his lordship and Allan passed a sweet romantic spot on Irwine water, still called "Patie's Mill," where a bonnie lass was "tedding hay, bareheaded on the green." ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

Allan Ramsay was residing at Loudon-castle with the then Earl, father to Earl John; and one forenoon, riding or walking, out together, his lordship and Allan passed a sweet romantic spot on Irvine water, still called "Patie's mill," where a bonnie lass was "tedding hay, bare-headed on the green." ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

The 1403C's tedding action is adjusted by changing the working height throughout any of three settings for each rotor's ground wheels, a task that is achieved without the need for tools. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It uses oil-immersed, maintenance-free gearboxes for its tedding rotors which, the company claims, contributes to lower running costs and improves machine longevity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The four tractors were tested carrying out typical tasks for this size of tractor - pulling a 3m cultivator, mowing, tedding and raking as well as towing a trailer on the road. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Further adjustability is available for tedding around the field boundary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These strong tines allow the intensity of the tedding action to be adjusted to suit different crop densities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

• K ISO JIXMOIBS OF JAHES, the Catholic body; yci, to talk of ex tedding the right of suffrage wherever property was to be met withy and, at the same tiiDe shut out the majority of the nation, was a strange contradic* tion. ❋ Unknown (1812)

The advanrages that attend this method of making hay, are, at it crently abridges the labour; sls it decs not require above the t\im of the work thai is neceifary in the old method of turning il tedding it; — that it allows the hay to continue almoft as green when it js cut, and prefervcs its natural juices in the greateft per - ❋ Unknown (1777)