teasel 的 2 个定义
- any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, having prickly leaves and flower heads.Compare teasel family.
- the dried flower head or bur of the plant D. fullonum, used for teasing or teaseling cloth.
- any mechanical contrivance used for teaseling.
tea·seled, tea·sel·ing or tea·selled, tea·sel·ling.
- to raise a nap on with teasels; dress by means of teasels.
更多teasel例句
- All these Indians spin the thread, of which they make their nets, of a kind of teasel.
- But none of these processes have succeeded in discarding the natural teasel from the most eminent manufactories.
- In fact, 'the seal of the Port-reeve bears a church between a teasel and a saltire, with the sun and moon above.'
- We conclude this chapter with a description of the common Teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris) of the order Dipsace.
- Tease, earlier toose, means to pluck or pull to pieces, hence the name teasel for the thistle used by wool-carders.