teasel

English

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teasel

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Alternative forms

• teazle, teasle, teazel, tazel

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːzəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːzəl

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• teasel gourd (Cucumis dipsaceus)
• wild teasel

Translations

plant

Bulgarian: лугачка f (lugačka) Catalan: cardó m Czech: štětka (cs) f Dutch: kaardenbol (nl) m Finnish: karstaohdake (fi) French: cardère (fr) f German: Karde (de) f Greek: Ancient: δίψακος m (dípsakos), κνάφος m (knáphos) Irish: liost m Kazakh: қожакендір (qojakendır) Macedonian: че́шленка f (čéšlenka) Middle English: tasel Norman: tcheurdron à chorchi m (Jersey), piègne à chorchi f (Jersey) Old English: tǣsl f Polish: szczeć (pl) f Russian: ворся́нка (ru) f (vorsjánka) Sicilian: carduni m Welsh: cribau'r pannwr f pl, llysiau'r pannwr m pl, llysiau'r cribwr m, llysiau'r cribau m, teilai mawr m

flower head

Catalan: cardet m Middle English: tasel Welsh: cribau'r pannwr f pl

Verb

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.

Anagrams

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