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tǽsl

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
tǽsl, tǽsel, e; f.
Teasel, teazle
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  • Ðeós wyrt ðe man camelleon alba, and óþrum naman wulfes tǽsl (tǽsel, MS. B.)

    (
    cf. wolf's-thistle,
    • E. D. S. Pub. Plant Names
    )

  • nemneþ, hafaþ leáf wiþerrǽde and þyrnyhte, and heó hafaþ on middan sumne sinewealtne crop and þyrnyhtne,

    • Lchdm. i. 282, 15.
Etymology
[Wilde tesel virga pastoris,
  • Wrt. Voc. i. 141, 13 (13th cent.)
. Tasylle carduus,
  • 191, col. 2 (15th cent.)
. Tasyl carduus vel cardo fullonis,
  • Prompt. Parv. 487.
Cloth ... with taseles cracched,
  • Piers P. 15, 446.
O. H. Ger. zeisala
carduus; wolf(es)-zeisala arnica.]
Linked entries
v.  wulfes-tǽsl.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “tǽsl.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/30180.

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