teazel
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Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The raising of caraway, coriander, and teazel is almost peculiar to this county.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
Many wire brushes and metal substitutes have been tried to take the place of nature's gift to the cloth-worker, the teazel, but nothing has been invented to replace with full satisfaction that wonderful scratcher.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
Slugs and snails too will often attack and bite flowers, unless they are kept away by thorns and bristles, such as we find on the teazel and the burdock.
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
If a 'prentice of mine cannot clean his platter, I know that I shall get little from him with carder and teazel.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It was then teazelled; that is, a nap or rough surface was raised all over it by scratching it with weavers' teazels or thistles.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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