sleave
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /sliːv/
sleave (sleaves, present participle sleaving; past and past participle sleaved)
Synonyms Nounsleave (plural sleaves)
- The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
- Silk not yet twisted; floss.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
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