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threaden

threaden adjective: made of or woven from thread.

Adjective

threaden (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Made of or woven from thread.
    • threaden fillet1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    • Thy gloves they were made of a threaden stitch,
      Thou kept on thy hands to hide the itch; […]1811, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review

Origin of threaden

From Middle English threden, thredyn (“made of thread”), equivalent to thread + -en (made of).

Questions about threaden

What does threaden mean?
Threaden means made of or woven from thread.
What part of speech is threaden?
Threaden is an adjective.

Words near threaden in the dictionary

  1. threadbarest
  2. threadbarity
  3. threaded
  4. threaded the needle
  5. threadedly
  6. threaden
  7. threader
  8. threaders
  9. threadest
  10. threadeth
  11. threadfin

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