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Word: skein (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

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.
  • wagonmaking A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
  • sports A winning streak.
  • provincial England A group of wild geese, goslings) when they are in flight.

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