meadowed

1. 1
   adjective

   Having meadows; used of a stretch of land such as a valley, slope or plateau.

   The trail climbs out of the forest onto a gently sloping, meadowed ridge.

   Above the tree line the hillside is meadowed and bright with lupine in July.

   Note

   Here -ed means "having", as it does in wooded hills or a walled garden: a meadowed plateau simply has meadows on it, while the haymaking verb's past form says someone sowed the grass. The adjective compares with more and most rather than -er and -est, and it sits easily in landscape writing, as in a hiking guide's broad, meadowed plateau.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of meadow. Rare.

   Note

   The verb is regular, so one spelling serves as the simple past (the farmer meadowed the upper fields) and as the past participle after have or be (once the bottomland had been meadowed). The verb behind it has a single, practical job: putting land down to grass so that it can be mown for hay.

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