Skein

Noun

 * 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 round a fifty-four inch reel.
 * 2)  A web, a weave, a tangle.
 * 3)  A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
 * 4)  A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
 * 5)  A winning streak.

Thesaurus
animal fiber, artificial fiber, bevy, capillament, charm, cilium, cirrus, cloud, cobweb, covey, denier, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, flight, flock, gaggle, gossamer, hair, hank, hive, jungle, knot, labyrinth, mesh, morass, murmuration, plague, snarl, spring, strand, suture, swarm, tangle, tendril, thread, threadlet, watch, web

Etymology
skeyne, escaigne,  écagne, probably of Celtic origin

Translations

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 * Italian: stormo

Noun

 * 1) (kvæði) scratch, small wound

Related terms

 * skeina

Verb

 * 1) shone, singular past tense form of skína (to shine)