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noun

Sleave n.

The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.

Silk not yet twisted; floss; called also sleave silk. "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care."

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Etymology of 'Sleave'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sleave" Quotes from Famous Books

... Complexity — N. complexity; complexness &c. adj.; complexus[obs3]; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication[obs3]; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c. (convolution) 248; sleave[obs3], tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl[obs3]; webwork[obs3]. [complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c. 704. V. complexify[obs3], complicate. Adj. gnarled, knarled[obs3]. complex, complexed; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... and hopelessness I fell on my bed, that night, and sleep, the "sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care," fell upon me. Just at daybreak I woke with a start. I had not dreamed once all night, but now, wide awake, with my face to the open east window where the rose tint of a grand new day was deepening into purple on the horizon's edge, feeling and knowing everything perfectly, ...

— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter