Usually means: Remove rope from a pulley.
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  1. unreeve: Merriam-Webster
  2. unreeve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unreeve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unreeve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unreeve: Wordnik
  6. unreeve: Wiktionary
  7. unreeve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. unreeve: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. unreeve: Dictionary.com
  10. Unreeve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. unreeve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Unreeve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. unreeve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. unreeve: FreeDictionary.org
  15. unreeve: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. unreeve: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Unreeve, Unreeve: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unreeve)

▸ verb:  (transitive, nautical) To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.

Similar:
unreef, unreel, unreave, unrope, reel out, derig, recall, unrelease, unrig, withdraw, more...

Opposite:
reeve, thread, weave, lace, string

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Similar:
unreef, unreel, unreave, unrope, reel out, derig, recall, unrelease, unrig, withdraw, more...

Opposite:
reeve, thread, weave, lace, string



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