Fortunately teazel is a hardy plant and grows without much care. From Wordnik.com. [India Today] Reference
In our own Kangra mission we started to produce teazel, which is that spiky plant used in woolen mills for "teazing" woolen cloth. From Wordnik.com. [India Today] Reference
We would urge him to take a waste piece of land and plant the teazel plant in it. From Wordnik.com. [India Today] Reference
For the slender recurved bracts of the teazel heads are stiff and prickly enough to roughen thoroughly the nap of the cloth, yet they yield at precisely the right point to keep from injuring the fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Many wire brushes and metal substitutes have been tried to take the place of nature's gift to the cloth-worker, the teazel, but nothing has been invented to replace with full satisfaction that wonderful scratcher. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
We needed wun – we gots a johnny depp, but apparently himz nakid. or sumfin. wering teazel an MB, mebbee but we haz no pierate cloves yet! welkom, an fank yor for showin us yor fluffy boots an eyepatch – trooly fabyooloso!. From Wordnik.com. [NOM - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Through beesom, ling, and teazel burrs. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Spirally-twisted stem of teazel 321 173. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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