Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ravel

plural of ravelin

Having hair that is very black and lustrous.

Entwined together; tangled. / Unravelled; frayed. / (figuratively) Complicated; confused; involved. / (programming) Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.

Of bread: made from flour and bran.

simple past tense and past participle of ravel

Alternative form of ravelling

present participle of ravel

A surname. / A female given name from English for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s. / A male given name

An outwork. A fortification outside a castle used to split an attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon