Definition of Teaseling

1. n. The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.

Definition of Teaseling

1. Verb. (present participle of teasel) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Teaseling

1. teasel [v] - See also: teasel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teaseling

tearstrips
tearthumb
tearthumbs
teary
teary-eyed
teas
teasable
tease
tease apart
tease out
teased
teasel
teaseled
teaseler
teaselers
teaseling (current term)
teaselled
teaseller
teasellers
teaselling
teasels
teaser
teaser rate
teasers
teases
teashop
teashops
teasing
teasingly
teasings

Literary usage of Teaseling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1868)
"Tbc stake has eel, an armed point, and a chalk recepta- by a screw cap, through which the line ism, the feed rollers, nnd the two teaseling cylinders, ..."

2. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"sedge. laid, a. ugly; bad (weather); naughty. lainage, m. woolen stuffs, woolens; fleece; teaseling. laine, /. wool. — beige, natural wool. ..."

3. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... burling machine, teaseling DI ¡chine, nipping machine. ... teaseling. — de ttn buque (mar.) displacement of a vessel I bulk of a ship. ..."

4. How the World is Clothed by Frank George Carpenter (1908)
"The teaseling is done by the head of a thistle raised in Europe for the purpose. ... After teaseling, the nap must be sheared off smooth by machinery. ..."

5. How the World is Clothed by Frank George Carpenter (1908)
"The teaseling is done by the head of a thistle raised in Europe for the purpose. ... After teaseling, the nap must be sheared off smooth by machinery. ..."

6. Every-day Occupations by H. Warren Clifford (1891)
"The cloth manufacturers stand ready to reward richly any person inventing a teaseling-machine whose metal teeth will be as firm yet elastic as these vegetal ..."

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