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ravelable

ravelable adjective: capable of being ravelled.

Adjective

ravelable (comparative more ravelable, superlative most ravelable)

  1. Capable of being ravelled.
    • An overedging apparatus is disclosed in which a fabric article having a plurality of sides is transported on a carrier over a course having a plurality of sides; the carrier successively presents each side of the article to a different sewing machine on each course, which sewing machine applies a...1972, Textile Technology Digest, volume 29
    • Similarly a blender,
      holy thing, any “appliance” woven cord (our mockups when I was a child were string incorporating neither process nor tail but the move from plaid effect of clothcovered wire
      to ravelable twine)
      are how they felt as interruptions of kitchen space dull as a football field.1993, Gerald Burns, Shorter Poems, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 101

Forms of ravelable

comparativemore ravelable
superlativemost ravelable

Origin of ravelable

From ravel + -able.

Questions about ravelable

What does ravelable mean?
Ravelable means capable of being ravelled.
What part of speech is ravelable?
Ravelable is an adjective.

Words near ravelable in the dictionary

  1. ravehooks
  2. ravel
  3. ravel bread
  4. ravel breads
  5. ravel out
  6. ravelable
  7. raveled
  8. raveled out
  9. raveler
  10. ravelers
  11. Ravelian

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