tassel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).

   “The Giant's boots were of pink leather and had tassels on them and his hat was decorated with an enormous pink ostrich feather, carefully curled.”

2. isim The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
3. isim The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
4. isim A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
5. isim A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
6. isim A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
7. isim A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
8. fiil To adorn with tassels.

   “[…] gauzes of silver mist; Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light, And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!”

9. fiil To put forth a tassel or flower.

   “Maize is a crop that tassels.”

10. isim Alternative form of tassell.