Crossword clues for teazle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teasel \Tea"sel\, n. [OE. tesel, AS. t[=ae]sel, t[=ae]sl, the fuller's herb. See Tease.] [Written also tassel, tazel, teasle, teazel, and teazle.]
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(Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species ( Dipsacus fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.
A bur of this plant.
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Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of teasel English)
Wikipedia
Teazle, teasle, teazel or teasel may refer to:
- Teazle (computer game)
- Plants of the genus Dipsacus, including:
- Fuller's teazle, Dipsacus fullonum
- Sir Peter Teazle (1784 – 1811), a racehorse
Usage examples of "teazle".
Victorian majolica vase filled with teazles and pampas grass to the floor, shattering it.
Recollect, Lady Teazle, when I saw you first sitting at your tambour, in a pretty figured linen gown, with a bunch of keys at your side, your hair combed smooth over a roll, and your apartment hung round with fruits in worsted, of your own working.
Lady Teazle, that lord of yours is a strange being: I could tell you some stories of him would make you laugh heartily if he were not your husband.
It subsequently appears that Lady Teazle abandons the society of the scandal-mongers, and she and her fond but somewhat irascible husband become happily reconciled.
She calls the doctor sir Peter Teazle and picks buttercups off the quilt.
Peach, who stuck to him like a teazle, stopped also, saying she would wait for her father there.
If he had made love to Lady Teazle as this one does, she would have suspected him of weak intellect.
Epeira works it up with her legs after placing each spoke, teazles it with her claws, mats it into felt with noteworthy diligence.
There were no fresh flowers in the house, but a bouquet of grey teazles stood on the mantel near where his wife picked at her meagre tapestry, as though they alone could survive the toxic air.
The most of the Forest Sauvage was almost impenetrable, an enormous barrier of eternal trees, the dead ones fallen against the live and held to them by ivy, the living struggling up in competition with each other towards the sun which gave them life, the floor boggy through lack of drainage, or tindery from old wood so that you might suddenly tumble through a decayed tree trunk into an ant's nest, or laced with brambles and bindweed and honeysuckle and convolvulus and teazles and the stuff which country people call sweethearts, until you would be torn to pieces in three yards.
He often visits the great fairs where he buys ribands and teazles and other such kickshaws.