teasle

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.

Verb

teasle (third-person singular simple present teasles, present participle teasling, simple past and past participle teasled)

1. Alternative spelling of teasel

Anagrams

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