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teazle

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[tee-zuhl] / ˈti zəl /

noun

teazled, teazling
  1. a variant of teasel.


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They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

She followed it out on the marsh, and when it cut into another dyke she followed that, walking on the bank beside the great teazle.

From Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith

He mentions woad as “trimmed wyth mannes labor in dyenge and wull and clothe,” and teazle “which the fullers dresse their cloth wtall.”

From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

In one corner was the picturesque Fosse Labarre, a wide horseshoe moat enclosing a little garden, now a machine-gun emplacement, where grew the cumfrey, teazle and yellow flag.

From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser) Cruttwell

A plant called teazle is now largely cultivated in England for the same purpose.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines

The wadding, picked up bit by bit from the ground, is teazled by the bird’s claws and inserted, all fleecy, into the meshes of the canvas. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Where shall we find in the Penduline’s mattress aught to vie with the Epeira’s eiderdown, that teazled russet gossamer? 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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