noun. undefined

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

noun. Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle.

noun. A flock of geese or similar birds in flight.

noun. An obsolete form of skean.

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

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

noun. A shaved split of osier used in wickerwork.

noun. 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.

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

noun. In cytology, same as spireme.

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

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

noun. 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.

noun. A web, a weave, a tangle.

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

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

noun. A winning streak.

noun. coils of worsted yarn

"That's cuz the other skein is already in progress:"

gaggle  wedge  

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filament  floss  hank  kirtle  strand  

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