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Seined vs Skeined - What's the difference?

seined | skeined |

As verbs the difference between seined and skeined

is that seined is past tense of seine while skeined is past tense of skein.

seined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (seine)
  • Anagrams

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    seine

    English

    Noun

    (Seine fishing) (en noun)
  • A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 169:
  • They were too busy hauling at ropes, collectively drawing a large seine across the bay before them – and singing their hearts out.

    Verb

    (sein)
  • (label) To use a seine, to fish with a seine.
  • Derived terms

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    skeined

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (skein)

  • 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