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skein

[ UK /skˈe‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈskeɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. coils of worsted yarn

How To Use skein In A Sentence

  • A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
  • Embellished with cascades of semi-precious stones, crystal beads, dabka, and vivid skeins of fine silk thread, the focus here is on detailing and embroidery.
  • Above you see two skeins of Rowanspun 4-ply, which is discontinued. Green apples - a knitting blog
  • It makes life much easier for each large bag to have a small plastic bag on top, filled with yarns of shorter lengths, approximately 18 inches to 3 inches, than the large skeins and/or balls.
  • You have a hoop, needle, iron-on transfers and skeins of embroidery floss.
  • She has two daughters with him and accepts her fate in life until a skein of circumstances widens her horizons.
  • For they barter even for pieces of porringus, and of broken glass cups, so that I saw sixteen skeins of cotton given for three Portuguese centis, that is a blanca of Castile, and there was more than twenty-five pounds of spun cotton in them. The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
  • A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.
  • Of course, before I could begin, I had to wind the yarn from a skein into a ball – I love to do this, but have had a difficult time doing it without ending up with tangles or knots at some point. Creative Every Day, Part 9 « Looking for Roots
  • Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast. — Ulysses
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