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Skein vs Sken - What's the difference?

skein | sken |

As verbs the difference between skein and sken

is that skein is to wind or weave into a skein while sken is (northern english) to squint.

As a noun skein

is 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.

skein

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) skean

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (figuratively) A web, a weave, a tangle.
  • * 1923 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man :
    • The practical application of what I have said is very close to the problem which I am investigating. It is a tangled skein , you understand. and I am looking for a loose end.
  • (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
    • (Knight)
  • (zoology, provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
  • (sports) A winning streak.

    • See also

    * gaggle * wedge

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wind or weave into a skein
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    sken

    English

    Verb

    (skenn)
  • (Northern English) to squint
  • * 1989 , Marie Joseph, A World Apart , page 344:
    • She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.
  • * 1861 , , "The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle":
    • He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.
  • to glance

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