teasle

Noun

 * 1) * 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.
 * A peacock butterfly now spread himself upon the teasle, fresh and newly emerged, as the blue and chocolate down on his wings testified.