teazel
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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.
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 Morris, Edward Ellis
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
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
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 Earle, Alice Morse
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