Definitions for yarn

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yarn yarn

Spelling: [yahrn]

IPA: /yɑrn/

Yarn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in yarn (anry).

Definitions for yarn

noun

1. thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
2. a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.
3. the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made (rope yarn)
4. a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings:

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to spin a yarn; tell stories.

Origin of yarn

before 1000; Middle English; Old English gearn; cognate with German Garn; akin to Old Norse gǫrn gut, Greek chordḗ intestine, chord¹, Lithuanian žarnà ent

Examples for yarn

I was afraid to tell my story directly, wanted to couch it in a fanciful (and imitative) yarn of sex and intrigue.

I say, Dirk, what do you s'pose all that yarn means about to-morrow night?

So we learned about it when Republicans raised it, and it became the latest ball of yarn for the news media.

In other words, he took substantial liberties with the facts to improve the yarn.

Perhaps that's why Goldfarb didn't comment any further on his yarn.

But what were the words he was singing, this yarn he was spinning in his song?

“That be damned for a yarn,” exclaimed the other in unfeigned astonishment.

I told you there was quite a yarn hitched to that smokin' business.

The yarn from the ring frame, or mule, is wound in a large cop, or on a bobbin.

The spindles, meanwhile, are revolving rapidly, spinning the yarn.