teaseling

English

Verb

teaseling

1. present participle of teasel

Noun

teaseling (uncountable)

1. The cutting and gathering of teasels.
2. The use of teasels to raise a nap on cloth.

Synonyms

• teaselling, teazling

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “teaseling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Angelites, angle ties, anglesite, galenites, gatelines, gelatines