Antonyms for skein

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skeyn

Phonetic Transcription : skeɪn

Definition of skein

Origin : "fixed quantity of yarn doubled over and over and knotted, mid-15c., from Middle French escaigne "a hank of yarn" (Old French escagne, mid-14c., Modern French écagne), of uncertain origin. Cf. Medieval Latin scagna "a skein," Irish sgainne "a skein, clue."

noun tangle

Example sentences :

She will remember now that a skein of hemp thread is not the thing to line her nest with.
Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen

There was a skein of blue silk swinging over the edge of the table.
Extract from : « The Flying Mercury » by Eleanor M. Ingram

In the evening it was a pleasure to hold a skein of yarn for her to wind.
Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin

That doesn't matter a bit, you must wait till the skein is unwound.
Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai

It was this time a skein of silk that the little lady wanted to have unwound.
Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai

She parted with caressing fingers the skein of tow on the frowsled head.
Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller

Shall we think that our prayers can avert a doom woven with the skein of events?
Extract from : « Eugene Aram, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Uncle Nicholas,” said Amber, “you promised to buy me a skein of blue silk.
Extract from : « Newton Forster » by Captain Frederick Marryat

In a little while Alice asked her to hold a skein of cotton for her while she wound it.
Extract from : « The Wide, Wide World » by Susan Warner

The negotiation with the French Government was but one of the threads in the skein.
Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing

Synonyms for skein

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