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Meanings of teasel in English
Synonyms
Examples for "teazel"
Examples for "teazel"
1
If a 'prentice of mine cannot clean his platter, I know that I shall get little from him with carder and teazel.
2
The cloth is run close to rapidly revolving "teazels" and also may be run through a napping machine.
1
A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.
2
Miles away from home, in a hollow among teasles beneath a ruin, he had found the commas.
Usage of teasel in English
1
Maybe I'll give Whinney a good combing with the dry teasel later.
2
Dipsacus pilosus, small teasel, -in the Short and Long Lith.
3
Then there was the tall patches of browning cutleaf teasel, cutting edges in the sky.
4
We walked slowly so that I could keep an eye out for late-blooming eglantine and teasel heads, chatting casually.
5
A teasel pick pickles!
6
She decided to spend some time with the horses and groom them with teasel brushes, which usually comforted them and relaxed her.
7
The dried flower umbel and brittle feathery leaves of the plant still clung to a stalk that had been growing near the teasel.
8
She brought grain to Whinney, and spent a few moments currying her with a teasel and scratching the little colt with it as well.
9
Then she led her to Racer and showed the girl how to hold the teasel to curry the shaggy winter coat of the young horse.
10
Ayla hugged and stroked and scratched them all, then found a dried teasel to use as a currying brush and started to clean Whinney's coat.
11
Ayla spent time in the afternoon rubbing down and currying Whinney with a soft piece of leather and the dried spiny head of a teasel.
12
Those who have lived where teasels grow will understand this illustration.
13
Tall, stately teasels stand like sentinels along the way, and the balsamic tarweed spreads its fragrance along the outer edge.
14
At that time every man, except two, John Platt and Ralph Teasel, two of the men who were saved, were washed off.
15
"You mean this teasel?" Latie asked, picking up a stiff stem with a rounded spiny dried top.
16
"Count," he said, laughing, "it seems that the Princess gathers lovers as a woolen coat does teasels.
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Frequent collocations
Teasel through the time