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n. A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil.

n. Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle: a twisted skein of lies.

n. A flock of geese or similar birds in flight. See Synonyms at flock1.

n. 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 round a fifty-four inch reel.

n. A web, a weave, a tangle.

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

n. A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.

n. A winning streak.

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).

n. A fixed length of any thread or yarn of silk, wool, linen, or cotton, doubled again and again and knotted.

n. A flight or company: said of certain wild fowl, as geese or ducks.

n. A shaved split of osier used in wickerwork.

n. In a vehicle, the iron head or thimble upon the end of a wooden axletree, inclusive of the straps by which it is attached to the axle, and which, being set in recesses flush with the wood, afford hearing surfaces for the box in the hub.

n. An obsolete form of skean.

n. In cytology, same as spireme.

To wind (yarn) into hanks of definite lengths other than the normal.

n. coils of worsted yarn

"Each skein is 3 balls of Baby Ull. When I finish Susie's shawl, I'll see if I can use these for some of Cookie's socks."

hank   

gaggle    wedge   

bottom    hank    hasp   

Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   

hank    thimble    strand    weave    floss    filament    kirtle    tendril