Category:Sleave

Sleave, n. Etym: [cf. Dan. slöif, a knot loop, sw. slejf, g. schleife A knot, silding knot, and e. slip, v.i.] (a) the knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. (b) silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. Shak.

Sleave Sleave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleaving.]

Defn: to separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; To sley; -- a weaver's term.