Ravel

ravel: [rav-uhl] verb to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of; to entangle; to confuse.


The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
----Robert Frost
Reluctance


Or the wind shakes a ravel of light
Over the dead-black river,
Or night’s last echoing
Makes the daybreak shiver:
----D.H. Lawrence
Silence