See ravelable on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "ravel", "3": "-able" }, "expansion": "ravel + -able", "name": "af" } ], "etymology_text": "From ravel + -able.", "forms": [ { "form": "more ravelable", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most ravelable", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "ravelable (comparative more ravelable, superlative most ravelable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms suffixed with -able", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1972, Textile Technology Digest, volume 29:", "text": "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 finished, unravelable edge to each ravelable edge of the article; the carrier changes courses without reorientation.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1993, Gerald Burns, Shorter Poems, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 101:", "text": "Similarly a blender,\nholy 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\nto ravelable twine)\nare how they felt as interruptions of kitchen space dull as a football field.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Capable of being ravelled." ], "links": [ [ "ravel", "ravel" ] ] } ], "word": "ravelable" }
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