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
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
Poor Shakspeare! how I have pitied him, and you too, Mr. Editor, as I have seen him for so many months undergoing the operation of the teazle in "N. & Q.!"
From Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
To apply them the cloth is stretched on cloth beams, and made to move in one direction, while the teazle cylinders turn in another.
From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel
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
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