Definition of "ravelled"

ravelled¹

adjective
comparative more ravelled, superlative most ravelled
1. Entwined together; tangled.
  Quotations
  [I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
  1871, Popular Science News, page 61
2. Unravelled; frayed.
3. (figuratively) Complicated; confused; involved.
  Quotations
  What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
  1660, Edmund Waller, To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return
4. (programming) Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.
  Quotations
  LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.
  1975, Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference
verb
1. simple past and past participle of ravel

ravelled²

adjective
not comparable
1. Of bread: made from flour and bran.