Skein: alternatives and connections

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its len…

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of…

To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; als…

a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.

To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together.

A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a m…

The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportion…

Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing ro…

To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to…

The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log ree…