Skein

n.	1.	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.
	2.	(Wagon Making) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
	1.	(Zool.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

Noun

1.

skein - coils of worsted yarn

animal fiber, artificial fiber, bevy, capillament, charm, cilium, cirrus, cloud, cobweb, covey, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, flight, flock, gaggle, gossamer, hair, hank, hive, jungle, knot, labyrinth, mesh, morass, murmuration, plague, snarl, spring, strand, suture, swarm, tangle, tendril, thread, threadlet, watch, web

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