How To Use Teasel In A Sentence
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Another modern coat which may provoke a groan is that granted in 1977 to Dr. Claude Bursill, which includes three burrs, or teasels, and the heraldic ordinary known as a fess, which resembles a horizontal slab or sill.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
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The land was quiet and pleasant, with teasels, cowslips, bluebells, and dark soil ridged for spuds or glowing with oil seed rape.
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The wave speed calculated for teasel disagrees, by a large factor, with the apparent rate of spread of the species in North America.
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It might have also had its nap raised by the use of teasels over the surface of the fabric.
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Vigorous self-seeders such as teasels and some annual poppies, and plants that tend to be too tall and lanky to stand the winter gales such as certain Achillea cultivars, are ideal contenders.
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We produce a broad selection of manufactured products like: single rib, teaseled fleece, interlock (teaseled and un-teaseled), in addition to the Lycra fabrics that are knitted from various types of yarns.
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In the teasels this screw-arrangement has disappeared, and has been replaced by a decussate grouping.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Finally, a nap is raised on the surface of the chechia by means of an implement made from the elongated, dried flower-head of a type of teasel (genus Dipsacus) grown and harvested near the village of el-'Aliya near Bizerte on the north coast.
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Suppose that some small fraction of teasel seeds land in water, and that when they do they are dispersed according to a Laplace distribution with some larger mean distance.
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A large variety of shrubs have already been planted in the garden including thistles, dogrose, wild primulas and teasel.
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Wild flowers present include wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare), agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria), hedge bedstraw (Galium mollugo) and wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum).
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The twisted teasels lose their decussation, but in doing so the leaves are not left in a disorderly dispersion, but a distinct new arrangement takes its place, which is to be assumed as the normal one for the ancestors of the teasel family.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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At Embsay I found harebell, knapweed, honeysuckle, meadowsweet, bittersweet and of course lots of teasel.
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Under these conditions, a teasel invasion wave would move each year roughly twice the mean seed dispersal distance.
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She was drawn to nettles and brambles and deadly nightshade and teasels and other lingering signs of ancient human habitation.
Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
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The garments to be teaseled cannot have free yarns.
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A large variety of shrubs have already been planted in the garden including thistles, dogrose, wild primulas and teasel.
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We walked slowly so that I could keep an eye out for late-blooming eglantine and teasel heads, chatting casually.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.
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Nearby, the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles, which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.
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Teasel provides nectar for bees and butterflies, and the seedheads supply seeds for goldfinches and crossbills.
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The fabric to be teaseled and/or fluffed wraps about a considerable part of the drum circumference.
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A large variety of shrubs have already been planted in the garden including thistles, dogrose, wild primulas and teasel.
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Nearby, the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles, which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.
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Christiane, I am not a globetrotter, but I share your love for “natural objects” like drifwood from a nearby deserted beach, branches, bark, foliage, dried teasels, berries... the list is longer
Grimpette - French Word-A-Day
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This is accomplished by passing the face of the matted cloth against a cylinder covered with sharp pointed teasels which draw out the fibers from the yarn.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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Nearby, the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles, which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.
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The teasel is another plant which had a vital use before the industrial revolution.
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It. cardone (or Sp. cardon) great thistle, teasel, cardoon, augm. of cardo: L. cardus, carduus thistle, cardoon, or artichoke.
The Big Apple
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It. cardone (or Sp. cardon) great thistle, teasel, cardoon, augm. of cardo: L. cardus, carduus thistle, cardoon, or artichoke.
The Big Apple
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The plants have grabbed a hold forming rafts of rushes and weeds; and teasels and fireweed march up inhospitable slopes.
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Christiane, I am not a globetrotter, but I share your love for “natural objects” like drifwood from a nearby deserted beach, branches, bark, foliage, dried teasels, berries ... (the list is longer)
Grimpette - French Word-A-Day
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Another possible explanation is that multiple introductions of teasel have contributed to its distribution in North America.
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Nearby, the rough grass and scrub contain large stands of teasels and thistles, which provide seeds for finches - goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, brambling and siskin are frequent winter visitors.
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Around this time, he met an antiques dealer named Lucille Teasel.
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I didz that by assident teh other day, now I noes how I did it! teasel2 says:
Dun wanna go to skool. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The fruit of the teasel consists of seeds protected by hook-like structures.
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To encourage them, provide bird-friendly seed-bearers such as teasels, honesty and sunflowers, and those that provide autumn berries, including pyracanthas and hawthorns.
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The land was quiet and pleasant, with teasels, cowslips, bluebells, and dark soil ridged for spuds or glowing with oil seed rape.
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The tortures that follow include strapping what Thomas calls a ‘teazle’ into William's mouth as a gag to choke him (presumably the large prickly seed-heads of teasels, Dipsacus fulonnum, that were used in the fulling of cloth).
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Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.
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In the case of teasel, field biologists were already aware of the discrepancy between the short distances traveled by most seeds, and the speed with which the plant spread after its introduction to North America.
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A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21
Bedlam
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They are not unlike a field of teasels in blossom -- there are the thorny points of this strange plant, and the delicate and exceedingly beautiful blossom beside, resting on the very points of a hundred lances, with their lovely lilac bloom.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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At Embsay I found harebell, knapweed, honeysuckle, meadowsweet, bittersweet and of course lots of teasel.
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They can also tackle the spiny seedheads of teasel, and the hooked seedhead balls of burdock.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fulling is followed by gigging, and in this process a nap more or less heavy is raised on the face of the goods by means of teasels.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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The operation of napping is performed by passing the cloth in a tightly stretched condition over a revolving cylinder covered with teasels or steel hooks.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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We present illustrative examples, using published data on two plants: teasel and Calathea ovandensis.
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'Well, you' ave 'ad a day of it,' said Mrs Whittle, when they had told about finding the Teasel gone from the staithe, and how Jim Wooddall had given them a lift down to Yarmouth, and how Old Bob had taken them up Breydon in the Come Along.
Coot Club
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They are narrower than those of the teasel, but this depends, as we have seen for the "one-leaved" ascidium, on the shape of the original leaf.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Those who have lived where teasels grow will understand this illustration.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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All around the station car park I found lots of teasel flowers and this species also has a textile connection.
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The writer had seen a copy of the Mark Lane Express Almanac, in which an article pointed out that ‘tobacco and mustard were grown in the Vale of York, and teasels were also pretty extensively cultivated.’