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"Coil of yarn"2 answers
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Definitions
A loosely wound length or coil of yarn or thread.
Word origin
The noun is derived from Middle English skaine, skayne (“quantity of string, thread, etc., wound on a reel; the string, thread, etc., so wound”), from Old French escaigne (modern French écagne, écaigne (Picardy)); further etymology uncertain, probably from Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to split off”).
Used in a sentence
“Some for very nede / Layde downe a skeyne of threde, / And some a skeyne of yarne; […]”
“Reche me that skane of tewly sylk; / And, Wynde me that botowme of such an hew, / Grene, rede, tawny, whyte, blak, purpill, and blew.”
“Brau'd in mine ovvne houſe vvith a skeine of thred: / Avvay thou Ragge, thou quantitie, thou remnant, / Or I ſhall ſo be-mete thee vvith thy yard, / As thou ſhalt thinke on prating vvhil'ſt thou liu'ſt: […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Coil of yarn”5 letters
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