ほつす

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

disentangle; untangle; unravel; loosen

Dated term for physically separating tangled threads, knots, or similar; modern Japanese more commonly uses ほどく.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、糸いとをほつすと記しるされている。

  In old documents, it is written as 'to disentangle thread'.