Pronunciations
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/sliːv/
Verb
To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
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Noun
The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
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Silk not yet twisted; floss.
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- Examples
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Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.