Also 5 tesel(l)er, 7 tasler, 8 teazeller. [f. TEASEL sb. + -ER1. AF. teizeler.]
1. One whose occupation is to teasel cloth.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 570/42. Cardinarius, a teselere.
1485. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 318. Frizers and tesellers dwellyng … within the citie.
1779. Kelham, Dict. Norm. Lang., Teizeler de draps, a teazeller of cloth.
2. An implement for teaseling; in quot., a comb for thinning out a horse’s mane, etc.
1607. Markham, Caval., V. (1617), 28. If your horses mayne be too thicke … you may with a tasler made of yron with three or foure teeth make it … as thinne as you please.
