sleave
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
/sliːv/
Definition of sleave
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
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verb
- To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
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(countable, uncountable)Silk not yet twisted; floss.
“Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Compare Danish slöife, a loose knot, Swedish slejf (“a knot of ribbon”), German Schleife (“a loop”).
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