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)

  1. (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)

  1. (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,

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