Skeine vs. Skein — What's the Difference?

Alternative form of skean

A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil.

See Skean.

Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle

A flock of geese or similar birds in flight.

A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.

(figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.

(zoology) The membrane of a fish ovary.

A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.

(sports) A winning streak.

A series created by a web major broadcasting network.

To wind or weave into a skein.

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.

A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

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

Coils of worsted yarn