teazel

American  

[tee-zuhl] / ˈti zəl /

noun

teazeled, teazeling, teazelled, teazelling

1. a variant of teasel.

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teazel teazelled

Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The blossoms form cones, which when in full bloom, are much the size and shape of a large English teazel, and are of a greenish yellow.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

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

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

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

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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