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skein
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synonyms: 1/6 of a hank ???
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Definition: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. Note: [It] is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---usually considered 1/6th of a hank (either by weight or by length). One source identifies a skein of stranded cotton as being 8.25 yards (7.54 m), of tapestry wool as being 10 yards (9.1 m), and crewel wool as being 33 yards (30 m).text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Sasha, looking worried and excited, kept running by me with a thimble, a skein of wool or some other boring object.
Anton Chekhov. Love and other stories
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Mother and Bailey were entangled in the Oedipal skein. Neither could do without or do with the other; yet the constrictions of conscience and society, morality and ethos dictated a separation.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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My attention was now called off by Miss Smith desiring me to hold a skein of thread
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein,
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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“[...] more tangles than a skein of washed yarn—”
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Only after emptying a bottle or two did he feel dimly that the terribly tangled skein of life which previously had terrified him was not as dreadful as he had thought.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 08 (Book Eight) . Simon & Schuster
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