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Skein
/skeɪn/
A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
📖 Definitions of "Skein"
noun
- 1
A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
- 2
A web, a weave, a tangle.
- 3
The membrane of a fish ovary.
- 4
(wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
verb
- 1
To wind or weave into a skein.
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