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
In one corner was the picturesque Fosse Labarre, a wide horseshoe moat enclosing a little garden, now a machine-gun emplacement, where grew the cumfrey, teazle and yellow flag.
From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser)
The withered head of the teazle, black from the rain, falls and disappears.
From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard
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
For Leafage, Flowers, or Seed Vessels.—The acanthus, oak, thistles, teazle, giant hemlock, cow-parsley, buttercup.
From Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship by Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
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