51³Ō¹Ļ

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sleave

[ sleev ]

verb (used with object)

sleaved, sleaving.
  1. to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.


noun

  1. anything matted or raveled.
  2. a filament of silk obtained by separating a thicker thread.
  3. a silk in the form of such filaments.

sleave

/ ²õ±ō¾±Ė±¹ /

noun

  1. a tangled thread
  2. a thin filament unravelled from a thicker thread
  3. poetic.
    anything matted or complicated
ā€œCollins English Dictionary ā€” Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to disentangle (twisted thread, etc)
ā€œCollins English Dictionary ā€” Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of sleave1

1585ā€“95; Old English -²õ±ōĒ£“Ś²¹²Ō (only in the compound ³ŁÅ²õ±ōĒ£“Ś²¹²Ō ), akin to ²õ±ōÄ«“Ś²¹²Ō to split; sliver
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of sleave1

Old English ²õ±ōĒ£“Ś²¹²Ō to divide; related to Middle Low German ²õ±ōŧ“Ś, Norwegian sleiv big spoon
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Example Sentences

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Itā€™s one we make from childhood ā€“ the sleeping infant, untroubled by conscience or the weight of the world, or in the fairytales that have people slumbering for a hundred years; itā€™s there in Shakespeare when he writes, in Romeo and Juliet, ā€œwhere care lodges, sleep will never lieā€, and in that line in Macbeth: ā€œinnocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravellā€™d sleave of careā€.

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Shakespeare wisely recognized that sleep ā€œknits up the ravellā€™d sleave of careā€ and relieves lifeā€™s physical and emotional pains.

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Letā€™s knit up the raveled sleave of care together today, shall we?

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Shakespeare put it best: Sleepā€¦that knits up the ravellā€™d sleave of care.

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"Youth and the Lady," 73;"To-day for Me," 103;"Sleep, that knits up the Ravell'd Sleave of Care," 114;"He Married a Wife," 126;"Designs," 141;"Iseult of Brittany," 142.Brockmann,

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