Sleave

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Archaic A fine thread or skein of thread.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
  • n. Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
  • v. To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Anything matted or raveled; hence, unspun silk; the knotted and entangled part of silk or thread.
  • To separate or divide, as a collection of threads, strands, or fibers.
    • Word Usage
    "Once I put a small garter Snake in a girl's muff, and it went up her sleave, which is nothing to some of the things she had done to me."
    Verb Form
    sleaved    sleaves    sleaving   
    Cross Reference
    sleaved silk   
    Variant
    sleave silk   
    Form
    sleaved    sleaving   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    floss    sley   
     
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