ravel bread

Coarse or whity-brown bread. ( Harrison: Descript. England, p. 166.) răv-el-ēr, răv-el-ler, s. [ Eng.ravel; suff. -er.] One who ravels. răve'-lin, s . [Fr., from O. Ital. ravellino , revel lino (Ital. rivellino ), perhaps from Lat. re- =back, and vallum = a rampart; Sp. rebellin; Port. re bel in .] Fort.: A detached work having a parapet and ditch forming a salient angle in front of the curtain. It is erected upon the counter IMG:content-0238.png:[blocks in formation] raveling răv-el-Ing, răv'-el-ling, s. [RAVEL, v.] 1. The act of untwisting or disentangling. 2. Anything, as a thread, detached in the proce of untwisting. *răv-el-ment, s. [Eng. ravel , v.; -ment.] An entanglement. "A series of ravelments and squabbling grudges."Carlyle: Miscell ., iii. 212.