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
The withered head of the teazle, black from the rain, falls and disappears.
From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard
He was perfectly right, for I recognized it at once as the "fuller's teazle," a plant whose sharp little thorns, which cover the stem and leaves, are used to raise the nap of cloth.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph
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)
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
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