skein

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skein

vyyhti, kieppi, lankavyyhti.

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Englannin sanakirja

skein (englanti > suomi)

1. vyyhti

skein englanniksi

1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, 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.

2. puhekieltä A web, a weave, a tangle.

3. 1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man:

The practical application of what I have said is very close to the problem which I am investigating. It is a tangled skein, you understand. and I am looking for a loose end.

4. puhekieltä The membrane of a fish ovary.

5. (qualifier) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

(rfquotek)

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

7. puhekieltä A winning streak.

8. To wind or weave into a skein

9. (kvæði) scratch, small wound

10. shone, singular past tense form of skína (to shine)

11. (is-conjugation of)

12. (form of)

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