ravelable

comparative more ravelable · superlative most ravelable

1. Capable of being ravelled.

   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

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   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.

   1972, Textile Technology Digest, volume 29