ravelable

English

Etymology

From ravel +‎ -able.

Adjective

ravelable (comparative more ravelable, superlative most ravelable)

1. Capable of being ravelled.
   • 1972, Textile Technology Digest, volume 29:

     An overedging apparatus is disclosed in which a fabric article having a plurality of sides is transported on a carrier over a course having a plurality of sides; the carrier successively presents each side of the article to a different sewing machine on each course, which sewing machine applies a finished, unravelable edge to each ravelable edge of the article; the carrier changes courses without reorientation.

   • 1993, Gerald Burns, Shorter Poems, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 101:

       Similarly a blender,
     holy thing, any “appliance” woven cord (our mockups when I was a child were string incorporating neither process nor tail but the move from plaid effect of clothcovered wire
       to ravelable twine)
     are how they felt as interruptions of kitchen space dull as a football field.