sleave (third-person singular simple present sleaves, present participle sleaving, simple past and past participle sleaved)
(weaving) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
• sley
sleave (plural sleaves)
The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
Silk not yet twisted; floss.
• Veales, leaves, salvee, veales
Source: Wiktionary
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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleaving.]
Definition: To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
