[f. prec.] One who unravels.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Wks. (1725), III. 263. Mythologists are indeed … mighty Unravellers of the Fables of the old Ethnicks.
1764. P. Hiffernan, Earl of Warwick, I. i. Time…, th’ unraveller of all The great events which actuate this world.
1814. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), I. 189. An unraveller of state cyphers.
1889. Athenæum, 20 April, 502/1. The ‘improved’ telephone is … dragged in to serve the purposes of fiction as an unraveller of crime.
