zetteln meaning and definition in german

Verb

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third-person singular simple present zettelt, past tense zettelte, past participle gezettelt, auxiliary haben

1. to strew, to scatter
2. to spread out, to separate, to arrange
3. agriculture to spread out cut grass or manure
4. weaving to warp a loom 1493 kainen zettel innemen oder wúrken, er hab in dann selbs gezettlet ("[he should] take over or work no warp, unless that he has himself warped it). Urkundenbuch Stuttgart ed. Adolf Rapp, Stuttgart, 1912, p.560.