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"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd ___ of care": Shakespeare
Answer for the clue ""Sleep that knits up the ravell'd ___ of care": Shakespeare ", 6 letters:
sleave
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. 2 Silk not yet twisted; floss. vb. (context weaving English) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to separate or divide" (threads, strands, fibers), Old English -slæfan , from stem of -slifan "to separate, split, cleave," from Proto-Germanic *slifanan , perhaps related to the root of slip (v.). Compare German Schleife "a loop, knot, noose." Related: ...
Usage examples of sleave.
I forget how the subject arose, but I remember Jeeves once saying that sleep knits up the ravelled sleave of care.