bristles

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Bristles may be better than wings for very small constructions.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

The application, hundreds of pages long, included an extensive history of a brush-bristle manufacturer, the New China Bristles Company, which Sung’s father owned.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

Philadelphia Fatback & Bristles Sirs: Let me congratulate you; it was a well-chosen word, aptly used.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bristles," continued the other, confidently, "would hunch his shoulders this way, as he nearly always does, and then he'd say: whatever you think is the right caper, Fred, count me in.

From Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School by Chapman, Allen

The Sow said: "If you want me to give you some Bristles, you must go to the Brewer and get me some Malt."

From The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker