v. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.v. To involve; to insnare; to entrap.verb-intransitive. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.n. Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See kelp.n. A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarln. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.