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teasel

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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tea=sel

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun teasel has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

teaseln. [OE. tesel, AS. t, t, the fuller's herb. See Tease.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    " Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A bur of this plant.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.  [1913 Webster]
Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.
teaselv. t. 
     To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

teasel, n. & v. (also teazel, teazle)
--n.
1 any plant of the genus Dipsacus, with large prickly heads that are dried and used to raise the nap on woven cloth.
2 a device used as a substitute for teasels.
--v.tr. dress (cloth) with teasels.

Derivative
teaseler n.
Etymology
OE t{aelig}s(e)l, = OHG zeisala (as TEASE)
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