teazle

American  

[tee-zuhl] / ˈti zəl /

noun

teazled, teazling

1. a variant of teasel.

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teazle teazled

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

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

There is a briar rose smashed to death; there is grass uprooted and a teazle crushed aside, a farmer's drain pipe snapped and the edge of the pathway broken down.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Here the strong teazle will presently stand high; here the ground-ivy will dot the mound with bluish-purple.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard

The fuller's teazle, and woad for dyeing, also grew, and still grow, I learn from Dr. Williamson, though I have not found either, in the neighbourhood.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

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 Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander