Sleave

n.1.The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
- Shak.
v. t.1.To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; - a weaver's term.
[imp. & p. p. Sleaved (slēvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sleaving.]

 

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