teazle

• “A plant called teazle is now largely cultivated in England for the same purpose.”

  Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

• “We scour the county in her pick-up, windows down, twanging country songs at the top of our lungs and laughing while we search out wild asparagus, teazle, milkweed, cattails, sumac, and bittersweet.”

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• “The vegetation of this waste undulated and frothed amidst the countless cells of crumbling house walls, and broke along the foot of the city wall in a surf of bramble and holly and ivy and teazle and tall grasses.”

  When the Sleeper Wakes

• “Three wide-opened casements laid bare the night under a teazle-blue heaven trembling with stars.”

  Over the River

• “An illustration of it is afforded by the figure (fig. 2), showing cohesion affecting the branches of a teazle (_Dipsacus sylvestris_).”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “-- The article undergoes the process of scouring before described, and, after being well rinsed and drained, it is put on a board, and the thread-bare parts rubbed with a half-worn hatter's card, filled with flocks, or with a teazle or a prickly thistle, until”

  Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

• “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.”

  Joanna Godden

• “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.”

  The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)

• “The fuller's teazle, and woad for dyeing, also grew, and still grow, I learn from Dr. Williamson, though I have not found either, in the neighbourhood.”

  Highways and Byways in Surrey

• “If it was no more than the lad that turned the handle of the grindstone to sharp the knife that carved a bit of a cabinet or what not, or a child that picked a teazle to finish a bit of the cloth that's glued on to the bottom of a chessman -- they're all here.”

  The Magic City

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