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unˈraveller
[f. prec.]
One who unravels.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1715) III. 263 Mythologists are indeed..mighty Unravellers of the Fables of the old Ethnicks. 1764P. Hiffernan Earl of Warwick i. i, Time.., th' unraveller of all The great events which actuate this world. 1814Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. 189 An unraveller of state cyphers. 1889Athenæum 20 Apr. 502/1 The ‘improved’ telephone is..dragged in to serve the purposes of fiction as an unraveller of crime. |