skein

IPA: skˈeɪn

A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, 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.
(figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.
(zoology) The membrane of a fish ovary.
(wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
(zoology, UK, dialect, collective) A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
(sports) A winning streak.
(radio, television, dated) A series created by a web (major broadcasting network).

Examples of "skein" in Sentences

The skein is too tangled to be unravelled.
That's cuz the other skein is already in progress:
A skein is a coil of yarn twisted into a loose knot.
Swifts are most commonly used to ball a skein of yarn.
The skein or ball to be wrapped is placed into the pocket.
A single 50 fathom skein of this rope was referred to as a line.
Alexander proved the Alexander polynomial satisfies a skein relation.
The skein tracks player commands as a tree of branching possibilities.
Variegated yarn is yarn that changes colors as it moves along the skein.
The following is an example of a typical computation using a skein relation.
A skein is either formed on a niddy noddy or some other type of skein winder.
Untitled skein will be produced by Fox Television Studios and Fuse Entertainment.
Lucy Lawless and John Hannah will co-star in the untitled skein, with Whitfield making only
I don’t know if you can tell, but the skein is almost * nothing* and I hope I don’t run out.
Each skein is 3 balls of Baby Ull. When I finish Susie's shawl, I'll see if I can use these for some of Cookie's socks.
The $1.7 million skein, which is partially financed by Canal Plus, centers on a community of trees talking like teenagers and tackling teen issues.
The diamond-shaped kite has no spool, but a funny shaped plastic handle, so you can wind the string in a skein, which is great for not tangling but awful for letting it spool out and go higher.