Now dial. Also 6 kydde. [f. KID sb.2] trans. a. To bind up (brushwood, etc.) in kids or faggots; also absol. to make faggots.
b. To secure (loose soil, etc.) by means of kids.
1504. in Nottingham Rec., III. 315. Item payd vnto Stubley … for feling … and kyddyng for a dey … viijd.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 132. Kydde the smal bowes & set them on ende.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 514. Set apart the largest for the Wheelwright, the smallest for the Cooper … and the brush to be kidded.
1814. W. Marshall, Review, IV. 161 (E. D. D.). The refuse is kidded up for the bakers.
1877. N. W. Linc. Gloss., Kid,… (2) to use faggots for staithing, or for securing sod walls against the attacks of rabbits.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., He is kidding all the winter.
1897. R. E. G. Cole, Hist. Doddington, 149. Labourers … paring the sods and ‘kidding’ many hundreds of gorse ‘kids.’
Hence Kidding vbl. sb. Also concr. kids used to secure loose soil, etc.; work in which kids are used.
1504. [see above].
1566. in Harwood, Lichfield (1806), 526. Payd, for choppynge the asshes, and kydding of the same,—ijs. xd.
1799. A. Young, Agric. Linc., 383. 21/2 miles kidding at a kidd a yard.
1864. Faversham Merc., 13 Feb., 4/3. A small length of kidding … necessary at the west side of the creek.
