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ravellingravelingn. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravel v.1, -ing suffix1. Etymology: < ravel v.1 + -ing suffix1. 1. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > thread(s) > frayed or unravelled 1577 in F. G. Emmison (1976) III. 214 (modernized text) The bailiff has seized..a piece of ravelling to make bolters. 1611 J. Florio Sfiaccij, vntwistings, rauelings, lint for Chirurgions. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz ii. ix. 83 Take the single threeds or ravellings of linnen, wet them in this Water, cleanse the Wounds with them. 1727 P. Longueville 198 He..with the Ravelings of some of the Sail he makes a String to the bow. 1836–41 W. T. Brande (ed. 5) 156 Trials were made with raw silk, ravelings of white taffeta, and of common sewing silk. 1871 J. R. Lowell 14 The nest was..woven and felted with ravellings of woollen carpet. 1937 L. C. M. Hare ii. 33 She aroused comment by economies in stationery and her practice of sorting ravelings for use as sewing thread. 1995 (Nexis) 27 Aug. g2 Thread clippings and ravelings cling to my hands. 1778 21 Of Righteousness mere Rav'lings and vile Shreds. 1855 10 Feb. 36/2 We were constantly assured she was worn to a thread with entreating us to hold up—nay, to a ravelling. 1903 B. Potter 22 I am worn to a ravelling. 1943 C. S. Lewis x. 151 Mothers wearing themselves to a ravelling to marry some daughter to a man whom she detested. 2003 (Nexis) 12 Oct. 40 The only reason we're not rioting in the streets is that we're worn to a ravelling with the worry. c1616 (Guildhall Libr. MS 4160) (1956) 12 He seald up his light Calimanco oration for feare of ravelling, with the name of an ancient Roman knight. a1647 T. Hooker (1657) x. 157 Such is the ravelling of our own imaginations, we lose our selves the longer we continue in them. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges iii Feazing, signifies, the ravelling out of any Great-Rope, or Cable, at the End. 1806 May 444/2 The operations of hemming, or otherwise securing from ravelling, the edges of trimmings. 1841 A. B. Granville II. iii. 76 [He] was asked to remedy another great defect in the machinery, connected with the ravelling of the thread or web. 1925 7 300 There are places here and there where points of contact can be developed and some ravelling of the tangle can be started. 1989 K. Smith xxiii. 135 Tales of detection and discovery, cops and robbers, the ravelling and unravelling of mysteries. 2007 (Nexis) 20 Feb. a11 [He] is still in denial about Iraq and is still talking about progress being made while the raveling of Iraq unfolds before him. the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun] a1626 F. Bacon Valerius Terminus in (1734) 402 A searching and ravelling too far into God's secrets. 1673 in O. Airy (1890) I. 79 Commissions issued out for ye searching and raveling into mens estates. 1688 in (1852) I. 242 Tending to the ravelling into ye Resolutions of ye Last day's proceedings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). ravellingravelingadj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ravel v.1, -ing suffix2. Etymology: < ravel v.1 + -ing suffix2. 1844 M. F. Tupper xix. 193 A few ravelling threads of this our desultory tale have yet to be gathered up. 1857 Dec. 126/2 That raveling coat-cuff! That frayed waistcoat! 1911 ‘O. Henry’ xiii. 134 All his queer clothes, his immense area of plaited, ravelling shirt bosom, and the little black string tie. 1976 B. MacMahon Woman's Hair in 36 I tried..to lever upwards on the ragged ice block of the frozen pool. Try as I would I failed to gain purchase on the ravelling ice. 2004 3 May 48/2 A turquoise blouse with large, ravelling holes torn fetchingly across the chest. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1577 adj.1844 |
