tassel

Meaning of tassel

noun
  1. 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).
  2. The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
  3. The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
  4. A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewed to a book to be put between the pages.
  5. 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. A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
  7. A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
verb
  1. To adorn with tassels.
  2. To put forth a tassel or flower.
    Maize is a crop that tassels.

Information about tassel

  • The plural form of tassel is: tassels.
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Hyphenation of tassel

tas-sel

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tassel is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of tassel

lasset, leasts, SalEst, salets, slates, stales, steals, stelas, teslas

Words that rhyme with tassel

Cassel, Dassel, Kassel, betassel, detassel, duinhewassel, dunniewassel, eassel, futtermassel, hassel, massel, muthmassel, passel, Bessel, Dressel, Flessel, Goessel, Hessel, Kessel, Schlessel, Seessel, bessel, chessel, microvessel, pressel, tessel, tressel, unvessel, vessel, wessel, Grissel, Kissel, Meissel, Sissel, dickcissel, drissel, hissel, kissel, missel, rissel, scissel, thrissel, wissel, IJssel, Ijssel, Overijssel, Kossel, dossel, drossel, nossel

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