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skein::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hank |
Examples of skein
skein
In the background Alexander Biscuits prepares the yarn to be added to the skein.
From the sacbee.com
Is the time now ripe for these diverse threads to be pulled into a single skein?
From the newscientist.com
Participants should bring size nine or 10 knitting needles and a skein of yarn.
From the stltoday.com
The plot is a dark skein of unraveling secrets too clever and original to reveal.
From the kansas.com
And shouldn't it be a skein of garrulous greylags, rather than a garrulous skein?
From the guardian.co.uk
A skein of twisted reasoning, that 4-2 decision went against marriage equality.
From the time.com
The conflict has created a tangled skein of improbable alliances and rivalries.
From the time.com
Each skein from Warner Horizon TV received 15-episode renewals for air in 2013.
From the latimes.com
Spanish broadcast network Antena 3 will co-produce and air the skein in primetime.
From the variety.com
- Coils of worsted yarn
- Skein (real name Sybil Dvorak, formerly known as Gypsy Moth and Sybarite) is a fictional character, a mutant supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.
- Skein is a cryptographic hash function and an entrant in the NIST hash function competition to design what will become the SHA-3 standard, the intended successor of SHA-1 and SHA-2. It is one of the 14 algorithms accepted for the second round of the competition. ...
- 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 round a fifty-four inch reel; A web, a weave, a tangle; A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle; A group of ...
- (Skeins) the metal spindle that attaches to the ends of a wooden axle on which the wheel box rests.
- A continuous strand of YARN arranged in a loose coil.
- A skein is a package of six-strand embroidery floss held together by a small paper tube. This tube has information regarding brand and color on it and should be kept until a design is finished (just in case you accidentally run out and need to get new supplies).
- The most common form of yarn packaging; an oblong, machine-wound bundle of yarn.
- A skein is typically an 8m length of six-strand embroidery thread. The skein packaging usually includes the brand and colour number.
