ravelledraveledadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈravld/, U.S.

/ˈrævəld/

Forms: 1500s raueled, 1600s raueld, 1700s– ravelled, 1800s– raveled (chiefly U.S.).

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare slightly later ravel adj.¹, and also ravel v.³

Now historical.

Of bread: made from wholemeal flour, or from flour with the bran left in. Cf. ravel adj.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > wholemeal

wheaten1530

ravelled1577

ravel1591

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 95^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The raueled is a kinde of chete breade also, but it reteyneth more of the grosse, and lesse of the pure substance of the wheate.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vi. 168/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The raueled cheat..is generallie so made that out of one bushell of meale..they make thirtie cast.

1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. sig. M5^v For bread they can compare with Lords or Knights, For they haue raueld, manchet, browne and white.

1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. 60 They had four different kinds of wheaten bread, the finest called Manchet, the second Cheat, or trencher bread, the third Ravelled, and the fourth, in England, Mescelin, in Scotland Mashloch.

1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. i. ix. 200 His pressed curds, his raveled bread, and his leathern bottle, full of thin beer.

1942 T. B. Costain For my Great Folly ii. 13 There was a long dish of scalloped oysters, a loaf of raveled bread, and three small mugs of ale.

1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 256 Cheat bread came in more than one grade, ravelled cheat being an inferior and more branny kind made in country households.

1985 PR Newswire (Nexis) 12 Aug. Cooking enthusiasts will have the opportunity to prepare and eat a complete 17th century dinner... The menu will include: mestlyne bread, mutton pottage, [etc.]. Cider and raveled bread will be served.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ravelledraveledadj.²

Brit.

/ˈravld/, U.S.

/ˈrævəld/

Forms:

α. 1500s raueld, 1600s rauel'd, 1600s rauell'd, 1600s ravelld, 1600s– ravelled, 1800s reaveled (English regional (northern)), 1800s– raveled (chiefly U.S.); Scottish pre-1700 rawellit, pre-1700 reavild, pre-1700 reuelit, pre-1700 reveld, pre-1700 1700s– ravelled, 1700s revel'd, 1700s–1800s ravel'd, 1800s ravell't, 1800s ravellyt, 1800s rewayl'd, 1800s– raivelled, 1800s– raivelt, 1800s– ravelt, 1900s– raivell't, 1900s– raivel't, 1900s– reeveled, 2000s– ravellt, 2000s– revelt.

β. Scottish 1700s reill't, 1800s rail'd, 1800s reulit, 1900s– rilet, 1900s– rowled.

γ. 1800s– raffled (English regional (east midlands and northern)); Scottish 1800s raeffled (Shetland), 1900s– raffelled (Orkney), 1900s– raffled (Orkney).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravel v.¹, -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < ravel v.¹ + -ed suffix¹.

a. Tangled (literal and figurative); confused, muddled; involved, complicated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]

confusec1384

yblent1426

intermellé1487

farraginary1538

puddled1559

confused1576

promiscuous1579

pell-mell1584

ravelleda1586

mingle-mangle1589

rumblingc1598

skimble-skamble1598

huddle1601

plundered1601

promiscual1602

jumbled1611

promiscous1656

bedevilled1755

helter-skelter1785

muddly1829

hugger-mugger1840

wildered1853

pied1870

deurmekaar1871

mixed-up1888

screwed-up1942

snafu1942

scrambled1951

untogether1969

a1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 234 Than rawellit Vousting and ruid Raschnes ran, Daft Indiscretion [etc.].

1644 R. Williams Blovdy Tenent xxxvii. 61 This perplexed and ravelled Answer, wherein so many things and so doubtfull are wrapt up and intangled together, I shall take in pieces.

1666 R. Baxter Call to Unconverted 204 Because our ravelled wits cannot see them right together.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 386 Dashing the knotted & ravelld whip-cord over their shoulders.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i. 7 Ye..have sa kind Red up my revel'd Doubts, and clear'd my Mind.

1745 W. Ayre Mem. A. Pope II. 179 It is objected by Mr. Pope and others, that Guarini has, besides these deep and speculative Verses, too much Contrivance and too ravell'd a Plot for a Dramatick Pastoral.

1775–6 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals IV. 203 In the abdomen..a little intricate mass, like a ravelled thread, [was] discerned, which was the stomach and intestines.

1800 I. Milner in M. Milner Life I. Milner (1842) xii. 216 A sad raffled letter.

1835 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 432 The difficult and ravelled problems touching the various collegiate foundations.

1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 86 Pee Dee ran to clear the anchor, ‘It's raffled’! right loudly he roar'd.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 200/2 It was such a raffled mess that there was nivver a lawyer i' th' country could mak' owt on it.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers x. 259 A clump of fluff and ravelled cotton was at her right hand.

1985 J. R. Reed Decadent Style iii. 86 Life and death, pleasure and pain, desire and frustration are inextricably linked in a raveled thread of material and spiritual experience.

1990 B. Whyte Red Rowans & Wild Honey (1991) 164 You could never be so stupid as I am, could you, my darlin' wee jugal? You would never get your mind so ravelled.

b. Chiefly Scottish. In various figurative compounds, as ravelled hasp, ravelled pirn, ravelled skein, etc.: a complex situation, a knotty problem, a difficult puzzle.

ΚΠ

a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 73 Ane evil reavild hesp is ill to red.

1637 Fleming in A. Whyte Rutherford (1894) xxiii. 201 My inward life is a ravelled hesp and I need guidance and direction.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 336 How to picke out an end out of the ravelled skeine.

1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 26 Providence seems a ravel'd Hasp.

1771 ‘Muscipula Sen.’ Curious Remarks Hist. Manch. 47 But as these antique curious Anecdotes may possibly be disputed by some Ignoramus's, I'll leave this ravell'd Skein to be untwisted by infallible Antiquarians.

1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess ii. ii. 16 Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn.

1806 J. Cook Simple Strains 99 De'il gin her neck were in a girn! She's left me wi' a ravel'd pirn.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 115 Speak her fair and canny, or we will have a ravelled hasp on the yarn-windles.

1874 G. H. Calvert Maid of Orleans iii. v. 70 Man were a raveled skein, Not to be disentangled, did his threads Not wind themselves upon the long hereafter.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 282 I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind.

1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 96 The student..likit to redd oot the ravell'd hanks o' ither folk's yarn.

1998 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 May The ravelled skein La Plante unwinds, involves an international artscam and past tormented relationships.

2. That has unravelled; frayed, with frayed edges. Also figurative and in extended use.Quot. a1616 has sometimes been interpreted as belonging at sense 1 (taking sleeue as a form of sleave n. rather than sleeve n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > having rough edges

shragged13..

jagged1577

fittered1578

ravelled1594

rough-edged1760

deckled1947

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective]

snarledc1440

entangled1561

intrinsicate1562

interlaqueate1575

kangled1577

intricate1579

ravelled1594

tangled1600

perplexed1605

intrincea1616

intertangleda1625

intangle1642

snarly1647

intertwisteda1659

tangly1813

reticular1818

uncardeda1833

tanglesome1888

warpled1897

pretzelled1938

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > frayed

ravelled1594

frayed1815

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L4 ^v Let his cloake be as long or as short as you will: if long, it is fac'd with Turkey grogeran raueld.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 The raueld button holes of her bleare eyes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 35 Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care.

1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iv. 100 A rauell'd wound distain'd her purer brest.

1686 N. Crouch View Eng. Acquisitions in Guinea & E. Indies 125 They made a float of the Ruins of their split Boat,..and with ravell'd and untwisted Boat Ropes fastning as well as they could, all together,..they got thereon.

1765 F. Gentleman Trip to Moon II. 48 With these Sentiments came the drowsy Power that knits up the ravelled Sleeve of Care, and lock'd up my Senses in Repose.

1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Jan. (1778) Perhaps, to clear the œsophagus, run the ravelled end of a stiff rope down into the stomach.

a1825 A. L. Barbauld Washing-Day in Wks. (1825) I. 206 Oft the pins Drawn from her ravelled stocking, might have soured One less indulgent.

1887 A. J. Wilson At Mercy of Tiberius iii. 56 A few stars peeped over the ragged ravelled edge of slowly drifting clouds.

1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction xviii. 283 His old red jersey was tattered in a dozen places, his muffler frayed and ravelled.

1959 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 59 1716/3 I was able to obtain an old piece of beige stockinette..and, though this was quite satisfactory for the dressing at first, it became rather ravelled after several uses.

2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 19 Mar. b10 Let this be a first step in knitting up the ravelled edges of our national psyche.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ravelled
释义	ravelledraveledadj.¹ Brit. /ˈravld/, U.S. /ˈrævəld/ Forms: 1500s raueled, 1600s raueld, 1700s– ravelled, 1800s– raveled (chiefly U.S.). Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare slightly later ravel adj.¹, and also ravel v.³ Now historical. Of bread: made from wholemeal flour, or from flour with the bran left in. Cf. ravel adj.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > wholemeal wheaten1530 ravelled1577 ravel1591 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 95^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The raueled is a kinde of chete breade also, but it reteyneth more of the grosse, and lesse of the pure substance of the wheate. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vi. 168/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The raueled cheat..is generallie so made that out of one bushell of meale..they make thirtie cast. 1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. sig. M5^v For bread they can compare with Lords or Knights, For they haue raueld, manchet, browne and white. 1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. 60 They had four different kinds of wheaten bread, the finest called Manchet, the second Cheat, or trencher bread, the third Ravelled, and the fourth, in England, Mescelin, in Scotland Mashloch. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. i. ix. 200 His pressed curds, his raveled bread, and his leathern bottle, full of thin beer. 1942 T. B. Costain For my Great Folly ii. 13 There was a long dish of scalloped oysters, a loaf of raveled bread, and three small mugs of ale. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 256 Cheat bread came in more than one grade, ravelled cheat being an inferior and more branny kind made in country households. 1985 PR Newswire (Nexis) 12 Aug. Cooking enthusiasts will have the opportunity to prepare and eat a complete 17th century dinner... The menu will include: mestlyne bread, mutton pottage, [etc.]. Cider and raveled bread will be served. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ravelledraveledadj.² Brit. /ˈravld/, U.S. /ˈrævəld/ Forms: α. 1500s raueld, 1600s rauel'd, 1600s rauell'd, 1600s ravelld, 1600s– ravelled, 1800s reaveled (English regional (northern)), 1800s– raveled (chiefly U.S.); Scottish pre-1700 rawellit, pre-1700 reavild, pre-1700 reuelit, pre-1700 reveld, pre-1700 1700s– ravelled, 1700s revel'd, 1700s–1800s ravel'd, 1800s ravell't, 1800s ravellyt, 1800s rewayl'd, 1800s– raivelled, 1800s– raivelt, 1800s– ravelt, 1900s– raivell't, 1900s– raivel't, 1900s– reeveled, 2000s– ravellt, 2000s– revelt. β. Scottish 1700s reill't, 1800s rail'd, 1800s reulit, 1900s– rilet, 1900s– rowled. γ. 1800s– raffled (English regional (east midlands and northern)); Scottish 1800s raeffled (Shetland), 1900s– raffelled (Orkney), 1900s– raffled (Orkney). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravel v.¹, -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < ravel v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. Tangled (literal and figurative); confused, muddled; involved, complicated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] confusec1384 yblent1426 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 puddled1559 confused1576 promiscuous1579 pell-mell1584 ravelleda1586 mingle-mangle1589 rumblingc1598 skimble-skamble1598 huddle1601 plundered1601 promiscual1602 jumbled1611 promiscous1656 bedevilled1755 helter-skelter1785 muddly1829 hugger-mugger1840 wildered1853 pied1870 deurmekaar1871 mixed-up1888 screwed-up1942 snafu1942 scrambled1951 untogether1969 a1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 234 Than rawellit Vousting and ruid Raschnes ran, Daft Indiscretion [etc.]. 1644 R. Williams Blovdy Tenent xxxvii. 61 This perplexed and ravelled Answer, wherein so many things and so doubtfull are wrapt up and intangled together, I shall take in pieces. 1666 R. Baxter Call to Unconverted 204 Because our ravelled wits cannot see them right together. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 386 Dashing the knotted & ravelld whip-cord over their shoulders. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i. 7 Ye..have sa kind Red up my revel'd Doubts, and clear'd my Mind. 1745 W. Ayre Mem. A. Pope II. 179 It is objected by Mr. Pope and others, that Guarini has, besides these deep and speculative Verses, too much Contrivance and too ravell'd a Plot for a Dramatick Pastoral. 1775–6 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals IV. 203 In the abdomen..a little intricate mass, like a ravelled thread, [was] discerned, which was the stomach and intestines. 1800 I. Milner in M. Milner Life I. Milner (1842) xii. 216 A sad raffled letter. 1835 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 432 The difficult and ravelled problems touching the various collegiate foundations. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 86 Pee Dee ran to clear the anchor, ‘It's raffled’! right loudly he roar'd. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 200/2 It was such a raffled mess that there was nivver a lawyer i' th' country could mak' owt on it. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers x. 259 A clump of fluff and ravelled cotton was at her right hand. 1985 J. R. Reed Decadent Style iii. 86 Life and death, pleasure and pain, desire and frustration are inextricably linked in a raveled thread of material and spiritual experience. 1990 B. Whyte Red Rowans & Wild Honey (1991) 164 You could never be so stupid as I am, could you, my darlin' wee jugal? You would never get your mind so ravelled. b. Chiefly Scottish. In various figurative compounds, as ravelled hasp, ravelled pirn, ravelled skein, etc.: a complex situation, a knotty problem, a difficult puzzle. ΚΠ a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 73 Ane evil reavild hesp is ill to red. 1637 Fleming in A. Whyte Rutherford (1894) xxiii. 201 My inward life is a ravelled hesp and I need guidance and direction. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 336 How to picke out an end out of the ravelled skeine. 1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 26 Providence seems a ravel'd Hasp. 1771 ‘Muscipula Sen.’ Curious Remarks Hist. Manch. 47 But as these antique curious Anecdotes may possibly be disputed by some Ignoramus's, I'll leave this ravell'd Skein to be untwisted by infallible Antiquarians. 1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess ii. ii. 16 Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn. 1806 J. Cook Simple Strains 99 De'il gin her neck were in a girn! She's left me wi' a ravel'd pirn. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 115 Speak her fair and canny, or we will have a ravelled hasp on the yarn-windles. 1874 G. H. Calvert Maid of Orleans iii. v. 70 Man were a raveled skein, Not to be disentangled, did his threads Not wind themselves upon the long hereafter. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 282 I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind. 1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 96 The student..likit to redd oot the ravell'd hanks o' ither folk's yarn. 1998 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 May The ravelled skein La Plante unwinds, involves an international artscam and past tormented relationships. 2. That has unravelled; frayed, with frayed edges. Also figurative and in extended use.Quot. a1616 has sometimes been interpreted as belonging at sense 1 (taking sleeue as a form of sleave n. rather than sleeve n.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > having rough edges shragged13.. jagged1577 fittered1578 ravelled1594 rough-edged1760 deckled1947 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective] snarledc1440 entangled1561 intrinsicate1562 interlaqueate1575 kangled1577 intricate1579 ravelled1594 tangled1600 perplexed1605 intrincea1616 intertangleda1625 intangle1642 snarly1647 intertwisteda1659 tangly1813 reticular1818 uncardeda1833 tanglesome1888 warpled1897 pretzelled1938 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > frayed ravelled1594 frayed1815 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L4 ^v Let his cloake be as long or as short as you will: if long, it is fac'd with Turkey grogeran raueld. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 The raueld button holes of her bleare eyes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 35 Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care. View more context for this quotation 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iv. 100 A rauell'd wound distain'd her purer brest. 1686 N. Crouch View Eng. Acquisitions in Guinea & E. Indies 125 They made a float of the Ruins of their split Boat,..and with ravell'd and untwisted Boat Ropes fastning as well as they could, all together,..they got thereon. 1765 F. Gentleman Trip to Moon II. 48 With these Sentiments came the drowsy Power that knits up the ravelled Sleeve of Care, and lock'd up my Senses in Repose. 1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Jan. (1778) Perhaps, to clear the œsophagus, run the ravelled end of a stiff rope down into the stomach. a1825 A. L. Barbauld Washing-Day in Wks. (1825) I. 206 Oft the pins Drawn from her ravelled stocking, might have soured One less indulgent. 1887 A. J. Wilson At Mercy of Tiberius iii. 56 A few stars peeped over the ragged ravelled edge of slowly drifting clouds. 1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction xviii. 283 His old red jersey was tattered in a dozen places, his muffler frayed and ravelled. 1959 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 59 1716/3 I was able to obtain an old piece of beige stockinette..and, though this was quite satisfactory for the dressing at first, it became rather ravelled after several uses. 2006 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 19 Mar. b10 Let this be a first step in knitting up the ravelled edges of our national psyche. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1577adj.²a1586
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ravelledraveledadj.1

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ravelledraveledadj.¹

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