мото́к — meaning in English

English meaning

• Hank noun A coiled loop or bundle of yarn, twine, or rope.
• skein noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.

Senses

мото́к is used for these senses in English:

• clew (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
• hank A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
• skein A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together in an oblong shape, 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.

skein — full definition

1. noun A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
2. noun A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.
3. noun The membrane of a fish ovary.
4. noun A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

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