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A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.
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See Skean.
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A skein of yarn.
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A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
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See Skein.
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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
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A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
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A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
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To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
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A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
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A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
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A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.
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