英语词汇“ravelling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

ravelling

释义

ravelling, vbl. n.|ˈræv(ə)lɪŋ|
[f. ravel v.¹]
1. The action of the vb. in various senses.
1673in Essex Papers (Camden) I. 79 Commissions issued out for y⊇ searching and raveling into mens estates.1688Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 242 Tending to the ravelling into y⊇ Resolutions of y⊇ Last day's proceedings.1830Galt Lawrie T. ii. xi. (1840) 78 All this breaking of banks and revalling [sic] of manufacturers.
2. concr. A thread from a woven fabric which is frayed or unravelled.
1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. ii. ix. 83 Take the single threeds or ravellings of linnen, wet them in this Water, cleanse the Wounds with them.1727Philip Quarll (1816) 57 He..with the ravelling of some of the sail made a string to the bow.1792Sir B. Thompson in Phil. Trans. LXXXII. 58 The ravelings of cloth, or cuttings of threads.1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 14 The nest was..woven and felted with ravellings of woollen carpet.
fig.1778Love Feast 21 Of Righteousness mere Rav'lings and vile Shreds.1903B. Potter Tailor of Gloucester 22, I am worn to a ravelling.

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