These are the meanings of the letters ERAVL when you unscramble them.
- Laver (n.)
A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
- Laver (n.)
A vessel for washing; a large basin.
- Laver (n.)
One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
- Laver (n.)
One who laves; a washer.
- Laver (n.)
That which washes or cleanses.
- Laver (n.)
The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.
- Ravel (v. i.)
To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
- Ravel (v. i.)
To fall into perplexity and confusion.
- Ravel (v. i.)
To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
- Ravel (v. t.)
To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
- Ravel (v. t.)
To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
- Ravel (v. t.)
To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
- Velar (a.)
Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.
- Velar (a.)
Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.