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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

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