skein

Meaning

1. A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together in an oblong shape, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
2. A web, a weave, a tangle.
3. The membrane of a fish ovary.
4. A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
5. A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
6. A winning streak.
7. A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/skeɪn/

From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne (Modern French écagne), probably of Proto-Celtic origin, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”). Compare Irish scáinne (“skein, clew”).

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