Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
ravel , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Weaving), Scot. A separator.
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This attachment is also called a ravel or raivel; and folk-names for it (not in the dictionary) were wrathe and rake; the latter a very good descriptive title.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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