teazle
Americannoun
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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 the ditch the tall teazle lifts its prickly head.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
He was perfectly right, for I recognized it at once as the "fuller's teazle," a plant whose sharp little thorns, which cover the stem and leaves, are used to raise the nap of cloth.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Jean Rudolph Wyss
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
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
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