[syn: tormenter, tormentor, teaser]
7. a device for teasing wool;
- Example: "a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Teaser \Teas"er\, n.
1. One who teases or vexes.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
3. (Elec.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining
their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
teaser
n 1: a worker who teases wool
2: someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring
curiosity) [syn: tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer]
3: an advertisement that offers something free in order to
arouse customers' interest
4: a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a
correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles";
"that's a real puzzler" [syn: puzzle, puzzler,
mystifier, teaser]
5: an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a
television show
6: a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from
seeing into the wings [syn: tormenter, tormentor,
teaser]
7: a device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle
the fibers"