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teazle

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[tee-zuhl] / ˈti zəl /

noun

teazled, teazling
  1. a variant of teasel.


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They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

A plant called teazle is now largely cultivated in England for the same purpose.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

In the ditch the tall teazle lifts its prickly head.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

He had found a great teazle plant, whose leaves formed cups round the stem.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

There is a briar rose smashed to death; there is grass uprooted and a teazle crushed aside, a farmer's drain pipe snapped and the edge of the pathway broken down.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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

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