Definitions for skeins

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skeins skein

Spelling: [skeyn]

IPA: /skeɪn/

Skeins is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in skeins (eiknss).

Definitions for skeins

noun

1. a length of yarn or thread wound on a reel or swift preparatory for use in manufacturing.
2. anything wound in or resembling such a coil:
3. something suggestive of the twistings of a skein:
4. a flock of geese, ducks, or the like, in flight.
5. a succession or series of similar or interrelated things:

Origin of skeins

1400-50; late Middle English skeyne, skayne Middle French escaigne

Examples for skeins

There was a skein of blue silk swinging over the edge of the table.

She will remember now that a skein of hemp thread is not the thing to line her nest with.

In a little while Alice asked her to hold a skein of cotton for her while she wound it.

The negotiation with the French Government was but one of the threads in the skein.

It was this time a skein of silk that the little lady wanted to have unwound.

In the evening it was a pleasure to hold a skein of yarn for her to wind.

She parted with caressing fingers the skein of tow on the frowsled head.

Uncle Nicholas,” said Amber, “you promised to buy me a skein of blue silk.

Shall we think that our prayers can avert a doom woven with the skein of events?

That doesn't matter a bit, you must wait till the skein is unwound.