¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teaseled
1. teasel [v] - See also: teasel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teaseled
Literary usage of Teaseled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws by United States Dept. of the Treasury, Dept. of the Treasury, United States, United States Customs Court, Customs Court (1915)
"plain woven fabric with one surface napped or teaseled to produce an effect
similar to a pile or plush, fell directly within the provision in paragraph 320 ..."
2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"2212 the cloth is teaseled in opposite directions on the same side without removal
from the ... A machine in which woolen cloth is napped or teaseled. ..."
3. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"After fulling the cloth is again scoured and then teaseled, by which the nap is
made. ... The finest kinds of cloth are teaseled and sheared several times. ..."
4. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1904)
"Many different kinds of cloth were teaseled in Norwich, including glove cloth,
and after these mills had ceased to be worked here, ™e cloth woven in Norwich ..."
5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"A machine in which woolen cloth is teaseled to raise a nun upon it, the ends of
the h'bers being exposed and laid in one direction, which forma the grain of ..."
Other Resources:
