teazel

American  

[tee-zuhl] / ˈti zəl /

noun

teazeled, teazeling, teazelled, teazelling

1. a variant of teasel.

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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Buckley, Arabella B.

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 Earle, Alice Morse

Genuine broadcloth can only be dressed by a teazel of Nature’s own growing; but shoddy, far less delicate, submits to the metal.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir