Definition of ravel

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Ravel (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern..

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Mark :: Mark (n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc.; as, a seamark, a landmark..
Safeguard :: Safeguard (n.) A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.
Diluvium :: Diluvium (n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice..
Zayat :: Zayat (n.) A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc..
Howadji :: Howadji (n.) A traveler.
Travel :: Travel (v. t.) To force to journey.
Howadji :: Howadji (n.) A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.
Plunder :: Plunder (v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers..
Gravel :: Gravel (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand..
Iceman :: Iceman (n.) A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers..
Raveling :: Raveling (n.) That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture..
Caravel :: Caravel (n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Graveling :: Graveling (n.) Alt. of Gravellin.
Caravan :: Caravan (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa..
Parterre :: Parterre (n.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood..
Plod :: Plod (v. i.) To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
Tramp :: Tramp (n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
Dirt :: Dirt (n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing..
Run :: Run (a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago..
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