reeled silk
noun
Silk made from entire cocoons, as distinguished from lower-quality silk made by spinning short fibres obtained from broken cocoons and other silk waste.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Humphry Marshall (1722–1801).
- letable
- let alone
- let bygones be bygones
- letch
- let down
- let drive
- leterato
- let fall
- let fly
- lethal
- lethal chamber
- lethal gene
- lethal injection
- lethality
- lethally
- lethargic
- lethargically
- lethargy
- Lethe
- Lethean
- letherwite
- Leticia
- let in (or out) the clutch
- let it all hang out
- let it be (or make something) known