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TEASEL
teasel, teazel, teasle
(noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
teasel (plural teasels)
Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth.
Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
Verb
teasel (third-person singular simple present teasels, present participle teaseling or teaselling, simple past and past participle teaseled or teaselled)
(archaic) To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.
Anagrams
• elates, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasle
Source: Wiktionary
Tea"sel, n. Etym: [OE. tesel, AS. t, t, the fuller's herb. See Tease.] [Written also tassel, tazel, teasle, teazel, and teazle.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. 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 D. sylvestris.
2. A bur of this plant.
3. 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.
Tea"sel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teaseled or Teaselled; p. pr. & vb. n. Teaseling or Teaselling.]
Definition: To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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