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"Coil of yarn"2 answers
hank4 lettersskein5 letters
Filled answer is this word (HANK).
Definitions
a coil of rope or wool or yarn
Word origin
From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.
Used in a sentence
“Cotton twist is spun here of 130 hanks to the pound. Each hank is 840 yards long […]”
“[…] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.”
“The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Coil of yarn”4 letters
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