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n.
A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.
n.
One who ravels.
n.
The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.
imp. & p. p.
of Ravel
v. i.
To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
n.
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
n.
An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ravel
v. i.
To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
v. t.
To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
v. i.
To fall into perplexity and confusion.
v. t.
To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
n.
The act of untwisting or of disentangling.
v. t.
To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
n.
The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
n.
A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
n.
That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
v. t.
To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
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