Sleave

Definition:

• (n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
• (n.) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
• (v. t.) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.

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