tedding

verb (used with object), ted·ded, ted·ding.

1. to spread out for drying, as newly mown hay.

verb teds, tedding or tedded

1. to shake out and loosen (hay), so as to dry it

noun

1. informal short for teddy boy

v.“to spread,” 15c., probably from an unrecorded Old English *teddan, related to Old Norse teðja.