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Ravel v. i.

To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

To fall into perplexity and confusion. (Obs.) "Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved."

To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. (Obs.) "The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ravel" Quotes from Famous Books

... confusion to carelessly mislay things. In fact, visitors came and guests left, but everything after all went off quietly, unlike the disorderly way which prevailed hitherto, when there was no clue to the ravel; and all such abuses as indolence, and losses, and the like were ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... the gods, wouldst thou invert the course of the planets, and make them retrograde? Wouldst thou disorder all the celestial spheres, blame the intelligences, blunt the spindles, joint the wherves, slander the spinning quills, reproach the bobbins, revile the clew-bottoms, and finally ravel and untwist all the threads of both the warp and the waft of the weird Sister-Parcae? What a pox to thy bones dost thou mean, stony cod? Thou wouldst if thou couldst, a great deal worse than the giants of old intended to have done. Come hither, billicullion. ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... days later she went over to Polly Loring's with her work. Polly's bag had somehow gone wrong. Cynthia had to cut the thread and ravel out a round. The baby was to be admired as well as the chair seat Polly had begun in worsted work, which was the new accomplishment. And they talked over various matters: who had new gowns, new lovers, and ...

— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas

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