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Definition of Sleave
1. n. The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
2. v. t. To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
Definition of Sleave
1. Verb. (context: weaving) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sleave
1. to separate into filaments [v SLEAVED, SLEAVING, SLEAVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleave
Literary usage of Sleave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The sleave is the knotted or entangled part of thread от silk, ... (See sleave.)
Sleeve of Hildebrand (The), from which he shook thunder and lightning. ..."
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1903)
"60, very ingeniously conjectures that the genuine word was sleave, which, it seems,
... The tow, or coarsest part of silke, whereof sleave is made. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"L.) \\ hat is now called floss-silk was formerly called sleave-silk ; see Nares.
... raveling or sleave silke ; ' Florio. [The Venetian form, according to ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"sleave. sleave or sleave silk would seem to be the tangled refuse of the cocoon
... From the nature of sleave silk, sleave acquires the sense of a tangled ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"sleave. sleave or ¡leave silk would seem to be the tangled refuse of the cocoon
which cannot be wound off, but only spun. ..."
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