Skein

Quick meaning: Skein is a noun meaning (by extension) A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.

Meaning

(by extension) A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.

More Meanings

1. A tangle, a weave, a web.
2. A winning streak.
3. A series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).
4. To weave or wind (thread, yarn, etc.) into a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
5. (figurative) To intertwine or weave (something) with another thing.
6. A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
7. A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.

Example Sentences

VVhat is ſhe heire to? a braſſe thimble, and / A skeane of brovvn thread?

Some for very nede / Layde downe a skeyne of threde, / And some a skeyne of yarne; […]

Knouel, der, oder Kna̔uel, a Bottom or Clevv of Thread or of Yarn, a Hank, a Skain of Yarn or Thread.

Reche me that skane of tewly sylk; / And, Wynde me that botowme of such an hew, / Grene, rede, tawny, whyte, blak, purpill, and blew.

Word Forms

• skeins
• skean
• skeining
• skeined

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ravelled, streak, clew, skain, skean, spin.

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