Usually means: Separate, untangle threads or fibers.
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  1. sleave: Merriam-Webster
  2. sleave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sleave: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sleave: Wordnik
  5. sleave: Wiktionary
  6. sleave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. sleave: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. sleave: Dictionary.com
  9. Sleave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. sleave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Sleave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sleave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. Sleave: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. sleave: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sleave: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. sleave: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sleave)

verb:  (weaving) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.
noun:  The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
noun:  Silk not yet twisted; floss.

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