unthread
To draw or remove a thread from.
Verb
- To draw or remove a thread from.
- Its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright / With love, and kept all phantom fear aloof / From the poor girl by magic of their light, / The while it did unthread the horrid woof / Of the late darken'd time,— […]...
- "Good and evil! good and evil!" thought he; "ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?" - 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page...
- To loosen the connections of.
- To make one's way through.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English thread English unthread From un- + thread.