Teasel

tezl, an herb four or five feet high, not related to burdock, but producing somewhat similar heads. The bracts are armed with recurved prickly points. The most common kind, the fuller's teasel, is used to tease or pull up the nap on woolen cloth. No machinery has yet been devised to take its place. Fuller's teasel commands a regular price and is much cultivated in England, also in New York for sale to the woolen mills.