skeins

Meaning of skeins

noun
  1. 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 around a fifty-four inch reel.
  2. A web, a weave, a tangle.
  3. The membrane of a fish ovary.
  4. (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
  5. (provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
  6. A winning streak.

verb

To wind or weave into a skein.

Information about skeins

  • The singular form of skeins is: skein.
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Hyphenation of skeins

skeins

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • skeins is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of skeins

seskin

Words that rhyme with skeins

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