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Definition of Teazles
1. teazle [v] - See also: teazle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teazles
Literary usage of Teazles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"The teazles are arranged on a cylinder in a machine called a ' gig-mill ;' the
cloth is stretched on two cloth-beams; the cylinder moves in one direction ..."
2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1899)
"No reference was [ *m ] made, in the pleadings or elsewhere, to the nature of
the crop of teazles, or of their cultivation, nor to the time of their being ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"THE teazles AND THE SURFACES. BY RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. (From "The School
for Scandal.") [RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN: A British dramatist; born in Dublin ..."
4. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"Artificial teazles.—The modern Cloth-dressing Machine. ... As the art of weaving
continued to progress, the demand for teazles increased in due proportion, ..."
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