skeins

[skein]

A skein is a ball of coiled yarn. If it weren’t for the skein, the world would be full of tangled messes of yarn that would take hours to untangle before you could start your knitting.

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A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.

Noun
coils of worsted yarn


n.
A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.

n.
A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

n.
A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).


Skein

Skein , n. [OE. skeyne, OF. escaigne, F. '82cagne, probably of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. sgainne, Gael. sgeinnidh thread, small twine; or perhaps the English word is immediately from Celtic.] 1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot. &hand; A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel. 2. (Wagon Making) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. Knight.

Skein

Skein, n. (Zo'94l.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like). [Prov. Eng.]

A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.

A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

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