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Skein :: Skein (n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

Selvagee :: Selvagee (n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc..

Skain :: Skain (n.) See Skein.

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

Hank :: Hank (n.) A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

Skeine :: Skeine (n.) See Skean.

Skein :: Skein (n.) 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..

Rap :: Rap (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

Skein :: Skein (n.) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

Cut :: Cut (n.) A skein of yarn.

Disentangle :: Disentangle (v. t.) 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..

Snarl :: Snarl (v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread..

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