teazle
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
A plant called teazle is now largely cultivated in England for the same purpose.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
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 Kaye-Smith, Sheila
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
He had found a great teazle plant, whose leaves formed cups round the stem.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
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