different between unreeve vs unreave
unreeve
English
Etymology
From Middle English *unreven (attested only in past participle unrevyn) equivalent to un- +? reeve.
Verb
unreeve (third-person singular simple present unreeves, present participle unreeving, simple past and past participle unreeved)
- (transitive, nautical) To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.
Related terms
- unreave
Anagrams
- Revenue, revenue
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unreave
English
Etymology
See unreeve.
Verb
unreave (third-person singular simple present unreaves, present participle unreaving, simple past and past participle unreaved)
- (obsolete, transitive) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,[1]
- Penelope for her Vlisses sake,
- Deuiz’d a Web her wooers to deceaue:
- in which the worke that she all day did make
- the same at night she did againe vnreaue,
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,[1]
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