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Definition: Sleave
Sleave
\Sleave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sleaved (sl[=e]vd); p.
pr. & vb. n.
Sleaving.]
To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of
threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
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Sleave
\Sleave\ (sl[=e]v), n. [Cf. Dan. sl["o]if, a knot loop,
Sw. slejf, G. schleife a knot, sliding 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
.
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Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
--Shak.
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