Crossword-Solution: SLEAVE 6 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Sleave n. The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
Sleave n. Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk.
Sleave v. t. To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of
threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.

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SLEAVE anagram LEAVES

We have 36 clues for the answer “SLEAVE”

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Silken thread 1 answer
Filament of silk 1 answer
Raveled silk 1 answer
SILK floss 1 answer
Separate into filaments, as silk 1 answer
Separate, as thread 1 answer
Shakespeare's "___ of care" 1 answer
Silk in filaments. 1 answer
Silk in the form of filaments. 1 answer
Divide silk into filaments 1 answer
Small silk thread 1 answer
TWISTED silk 1 answer
Tangle of ravelings 1 answer
Tangle of silk thread. 1 answer
Tangled skein. 1 answer
UNRAVEL silk 1 answer
UNSPUN silk 1 answer
UNTWISTED silk 1 answer
"The ravell'd __ of care": Shak. 1 answer
"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd ___." 1 answer
"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd ___ of care": Shakespeare 1 answer
" . . . the ravel'd ___ of care": Macbeth 1 answer
" . . . the ravel'd ___ of care" 1 answer
" . . . ravell'd ___ of care": Shak. 1 answer
" . . . ravell'd ___ of care": Macbeth 1 answer
" . . . ravel'd ___ of care." 1 answer
FLOSS silk 2 answers
SILK filament 2 answers
Skein of thread. 2 answers
Fine thread 5 answers
Kind of silk 5 answers
silk thread 8 answers
__ floss 10 answers
COVERED WITH DENSE COTTONY HAIRS OR HAIRLIKE FILAMENTS 10 answers
skein 10 answers
AS OF FILAMENTS SPUN INTO A THREAD 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SLEAVE (5)

She washt the wound with a fresh teare, Which my LUCASTA dropped, And in the sleave-silke of her haire 'Twas hard bound up and wrapped.
Lucasta Richard Lovelace 1996
Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest, Let curious Traitors sleave silk flies, To 'witch poor wandring fishes eyes.
The Complete Angler, 1653 Isaak Walton 2005
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Various 2005
Let coarse bold hands from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks outwrest, Or curious traitors, sleave-silk flies, Bewitch poor fishes' wandering eyes.
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 2007
How tremendous is that figure of the "Pensieroso" standing there motionless like a silent sentinel over death, awaiting the blast of the last trump! What repose and grace, too, in the figure of Night, or rather of Sleep, "that knits up the ravelled sleave of Care," beside the robust form of Day lying bound and fettered as it were, till the last dawn shall come.
Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music Charles Gounod 2011

Quotes with SLEAVE (2)

Mr Wisdom,' said the girl who had led him into the presence.'Ah,' said Howard Saxby, and there was a pause of perhaps three minutes, during which his needles clicked busily. 'Wisdom, did she say?''Yes. I wrote "Cocktail Time"''You couldn't have done better,' said Mr Saxby cordially. 'How's your wife, Mr Wisdom?'Cosmo said he had no wife.'Surely?'"I'm a bachelor.'Then Wordsworth was wrong. He said you were married to immortal verse. Excuse me a moment,' murmured Mr Saxby, appl…
P. G. Wodehouse
Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 24 times in crossword archives (1950–2011).