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
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
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
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
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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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