skein
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Noun — A loosely wound coil of thread or yarn, gathered together after being taken off a reel.
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Etymology
The noun comes from Middle English skaine, skayne (“quantity of string, thread, etc., wound on a reel; the string, thread, etc., so wound”), from Old French escaigne (modern French écagne, écaigne in Picardy); beyond that the origin is uncertain, though it is probably from Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *skend-...
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