Zed

Etymology
From ζῆτα:

Noun

 * 1) Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.
 * 1) Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.

Synonyms

 * zee (especially in the US)
 * izzard

Verb

 * 1)  To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
 * 2) * 1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed
 * Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
 * 1) * 1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city
 * I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
 * 1) * 2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy
 * "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
 * 1)  To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
 * 2) * 1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
 * We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
 * 1) * 1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang
 * Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.

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