teasel

• teazle, teasle, teazel, tazel

From Middle English tasel, tesel, from Old English tǣsel, tǣsl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːzəl/

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• Rhymes: -iːzəl

teasel (plural teasels)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
2. The dried fruiting head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativa, used for teasing or carding cloth.
3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

• teasel gourd (Cucumis dipsaceus)
• wild teasel

teasel (third-person singular simple present teasels, present participle teaselling or teaseling, simple past and past participle teaselled or teaseled)

1. (archaic) To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.

• elates, saltee, slatee, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasle