Read full poem →‘What scandal people talk’d!’ ‘Would I
Hold out this skein of silk.’ So pass’d
I knew not how much time away.
Dictionary Entry
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.
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Common Phrases
. skeinskein tangledskein oneskein complexskein testskein wholeskein long
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Poetry examples for “skein”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
Read full poem →Is loath their sweet Communion to destroy,
Or cast a Tangle in the Skein of Joy.
Read full poem →I turn to a sister of Sainted Cecilia,
A white bird escaping the earth's tangled skein:--
The music of God is her innermost brooding,