Read full poem →For the thin threads of yellow foam
Float on the waves like ravelled lace.
Dictionary Entry
To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
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Common Phrases
sleeve ravelledsleave ravelledskein ravelledthreads ravelled. ravelledsilk ravelledravelled sequence
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Poetry examples for “ravelled”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Read full poem →And at every wandering cloud that trailed
Its ravelled fleeces by.
Read full poem →_And after, when her blood ran wild,_
_Had ravelled her own story out,_
_And said, 'In two or in three years_