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
In the ditch the tall teazle lifts its prickly head.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
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
Here the strong teazle will presently stand high; here the ground-ivy will dot the mound with bluish-purple.
From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies
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 George Bell
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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