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sleave |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sleave \Sleave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sleaved}; p. pr & vb n. {Sleaving}.] To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sleave \Sleave\, n. [Cf. Dan. sl["o]if, a knot loop, Sw slejf G. schleife a knot, silding knot, and E. slip, v.i.] a The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. b Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also {sleave silk}. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care --Shak.
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