unreave

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Verb

unreave (unreaves, present participle unreaving; past and past participle unreaved)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,

     Penelope for her Ulysses sake,

     Deuiz’d a Web her wooers to deceaue:

     in which the worke that she all day did make

     the same at night she did againe vnreaue,

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