Lexicographical Neighbors of Teazled
Literary usage of Teazled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"The cloth was not teazled till it had been ' tucked ' (ie fulled) and ' tented
... After the tenting, it is picked over, fulled or tucked, teazled, sheared, ..."
2. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"The cloth was not teazled till it had been ' tucked' (ie fulled) and ' tented
... After the tenting, it is picked over, fulled or tucked, teazled, sheared, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"The wind is hushed, and every thing appears preternaturally calm "^Numberless
small ragged clouds, like teazled (lakes of cotton, soon I in to make their ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"... the article being loosely woven, neither sheared, fulled, nor pressed, but
teazled and raised, fully or partially, on both sides. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1830)
"Numberless small ragged clouds, like teazled flakes of cotton, soon begin to make
their appearance, moving about in various directions and perpetually ..."
6. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"Fine broadcloth is teazled and shorn several times, till it presents a very short
and perfectly uniform nap. Then it is subjected to the action of steam, ..."
7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"... to indicate the size aiid weight of the blanket ; the article being loosely
woven, neither sheared, fulled, nor pressed, but teazled and raised, ..."
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