teazle

A plant called teazle is now largely cultivated in England for the same purpose.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

We scour the county in her pick-up, windows down, twanging country songs at the top of our lungs and laughing while we search out wild asparagus, teazle, milkweed, cattails, sumac, and bittersweet.

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We scour the county in her pick-up, windows down, twanging country songs at the top of our lungs and laughing while we search out wild asparagus, teazle, milkweed, cattails, sumac, and bittersweet.

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The vegetation of this waste undulated and frothed amidst the countless cells of crumbling house walls, and broke along the foot of the city wall in a surf of bramble and holly and ivy and teazle and tall grasses.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

Three wide-opened casements laid bare the night under a teazle-blue heaven trembling with stars.

Over the River 2004

An illustration of it is afforded by the figure (fig. 2), showing cohesion affecting the branches of a teazle (_Dipsacus sylvestris_).

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

-- The article undergoes the process of scouring before described, and, after being well rinsed and drained, it is put on a board, and the thread-bare parts rubbed with a half-worn hatter's card, filled with flocks, or with a teazle or a prickly thistle, until

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

She followed it out on the marsh, and when it cut into another dyke she followed that, walking on the bank beside the great teazle.

Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

In one corner was the picturesque Fosse Labarre, a wide horseshoe moat enclosing a little garden, now a machine-gun emplacement, where grew the cumfrey, teazle and yellow flag.

The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) 1914

The fuller's teazle, and woad for dyeing, also grew, and still grow, I learn from Dr. Williamson, though I have not found either, in the neighbourhood.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912