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Sleave logo #10101) Complexity
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Sleave logo #10101) Divide silk into filaments 2) Filament of silk 3) Floss 4) Kind of silk 5) Raveled silk 6) Silken thread 7) Small silk thread 8) Tangle of ravelings 9) Tangle of silk thread 10) Untwisted silk
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Sleave logo #21002• (n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. • (n.) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk. • (v. t.) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver`s term.
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Sleave logo #20972Sleave (slēv) noun [ Confer Danish slöif , a knot loop, Swedish slejf , German schleife a knot, sliding knot, and English slip , v.i.] (a) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. (b) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave sil...
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Sleave logo #20972Sleave transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sleaved (slēvd); present participle & verbal noun Sleaving .] To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
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