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seed verb Past tense and past participle of see. [OED dates this usage from the 18th century; DARE labels these usages "chiefly South, South Midland" in the U.S.]
1787 Sinking Creek Church Minutes I:2 they seed no need or Receiveing of them. 1863 Poteet CW Letters (Nov 23) I went over to Kinston and I seed sum Crackers and I give fifty cents for six about as big as a dollar. 1908 Fox Lonesome Pine 113 Up at the Pine now you said, “I seed you when I was a-layin’ on the cliff”; now you ought to have said, “I saw you when I was lyin’—“ ”I wasn’t,” she said sharply, “I don’t tell lies—.” 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 120 They've seed the revenuers in flesh and blood. 1937 Thornburgh Great Smoky Mts 39 I’ve seed him out as early as January or February. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I went just on up to the top of the mountain, till I seed the dark was on me, and then I set down and stayed there all night. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 20 In the mountain areas south of the Kanawha [seed] becomes quite common, being used by most Type I informants [i.e. older speakers having little formal education] as well as by a few Type II [i.e. younger speakers having more formal education]. Seed extends more or less all across N.C., in some areas being the only preterite form in use other than saw ... Seen ... strongly predominates in the Midland area—including n. N.J., the southern three fourths of Pa., W.Va. (except a small southern portion), most of Del. and Md., part of n. and w. Va. [and] some portions of N.C. 1990 Matewan OHP-73 He was one of them, so he seed what it was all about.