Sleave

n.	1.	The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; - a weaver's term. [imp. & p. p. Sleaved (slēvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sleaving.]