Usually means: Plant used for combing wool.
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  1. teasel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. teasel: Merriam-Webster
  3. teasel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. teasel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. teasel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. teasel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Teasel, teasel: Wordnik
  8. teasel: Wiktionary
  9. teasel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. teasel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. teasel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. teasel: Dictionary.com
  13. teasel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Teasel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Teasel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. teasel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. teasel: Rhymezone
  18. Teasel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. teasel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. teasel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. teasel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. teasel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. teasel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
noun:  The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth.
noun:  Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
verb:  (archaic) To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.

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