Meaning of ravel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name.
2. A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
   Scotland, literary
3. A surname.
4. A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
   Scotland, figuratively, literary
5. A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
   also, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.'”

“There was a lovely ravel of sunflowers in the garden. She looked out the window. "There are my sunflowers!" she said.”

“The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes.”

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