different between teasle vs teasel

English

Noun

teasle (plural teasles)

1. Alternative spelling of teasel
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 48

     A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.

Anagrams

• elates, saltee, slatee, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasel

English

Alternative forms

• teazle, teasle, teazel

Etymology

From Middle English tesel, tasil, tasel, tosel, from Old English t?sel, t?sl, from Proto-West Germanic *taisilu.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?z?l

Noun

teasel (plural teasels)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus.
2. The dried flower head of the fuller's teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, used for teasing or carding cloth.
3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

Translations

Verb

teasel (third-person singular simple present teasels, present participle teaselling or teaseling, simple past and past participle teaselled or teaseled)

1. (archaic) To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.

Anagrams

• elates, saltee, slatee, steale, stelae, stelæ, teasle