teasel

English

plant

dried flower head

Alternative forms

• teazle, teasle, teazel

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːzəl

Noun

teasel (plural teasels)

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

Translations

plant

• Czech: štětka (cs) f
• Dutch: distel (nl) m or f, kaardebol m
• Finnish: karstaohdake (fi)
• French: cardère (fr) f
• German: Karde (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: δίψακος m (dípsakos)

• Irish: liost m
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• Macedonian: че́шленка f (čéšlenka)
• Norman: tcheurdron à chorchi m (Jersey), piègne à chorchi f (Jersey)
• Polish: szczeć f
• Russian: ворся́нка (ru) f (vorsjánka)
• Welsh: cribau 'r pannwr f pl, llysiau 'r pannwr m pl, llysiau 'r cribwr m, llysiau 'r cribau m, teilai mawr m

flower head

• Welsh: cribau'r pannwr f pl
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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, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasle