Usually means: Removing rope from a pulley.
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  1. unreeving: Merriam-Webster
  2. unreeving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unreeving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unreeving: Wiktionary
  5. unreeving: Dictionary.com
  6. unreeving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive, nautical) To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.
▸ Also see unreeve


Opposite:
reeving, threading, weaving, stringing, lacing

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Opposite:
reeving, threading, weaving, stringing, lacing




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