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sleave

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sleave  (slv)
n. Archaic
A fine thread or skein of thread.
[From Middle English *sleven, to disentangle, from Old English *slfan, to cut, from slf, past tense of slfan, to split.]
sleave [sliːv]
n
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Knitting & Sewing) a tangled thread
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a thin filament unravelled from a thicker thread
3. Chiefly poetic anything matted or complicated
vb
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Knitting & Sewing) to disentangle (twisted thread, etc.)
[Old English slǣfan to divide; related to Middle Low German slēf, Norwegian sleiv big spoon]
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Izzibizzi 4 b f Medicean - Sleave Silk 2/31140- Won two for us last autumn, on the all-weather at Kempton and on soft ground at Newbury, and should win again over 1m or 1m2f in handicap company.
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As for the other tactical weapons that Mathew has up his sleave, well, I do have insider information on their capabilities, but I can''t tell you what they are at this time.
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Macbeth continua a ripetere sui palcoscenici del mondo, ancora per i suoi spettatori di oggi, il suo desiderio di sonno negato all'assassino: "sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care / the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course / chief nourisher in life's feast" (Atto II, sc.
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