Obs. exc. dial. [perh. a dial. variant or corruption of INN v., influenced by END v.1
It has been suggested that the word is a corruption of *in-do, corresponding to Ger. einthun used in the same sense; but this seems impossible.]
trans. To put (corn, hay, etc.) into (a barn, stack, etc.); to ‘get in.’ Also fig. Hence Ended ppl. a.
1607. Shaks., Cor., V. vi. 37. I … holpe to reape the Fame Which he did end all his.
1632. Milton, L’Allegro, 109. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end.
1858. Hereford Times, 23 Jan., in Dyce, Shaks. Cor. V. vi. 37. Three well-ended hay-ricks … a rick of well-ended hay.
