Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: skein
IPA transcription: [sk'eɪn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: skein
    Meaning: coils of worsted yarn
Usage examples
  • The skein of silk was just wound round the card; but Mr. Jos had never spoken.
  • Graciosa stood dismayed, turning the skein over and over, and breaking hundreds of threads each time.
  • "There, miss, teach your clumsy fingers to unwind this skein, and if you break a single thread I will flay you alive.
  • There was no complaint to make, yet Grognon exclaimed that the skein was dirty, and boxed the princess's ears till her rosy cheeks turned yellow and blue.
  • "Behold me, princess, ready to serve you, even though you forsook me." He touched the skein with his wand, and it untangled itself, and wound itself up in perfect order.
  • 'YOU may think that there is nothing on it,' answered she, 'but I can assure you that there is a large skein of wool, so fine that nobody can see it, which will be woven into a coat for you.'
  • The fairy promised to think of it, and soon brought a skein as thick as four persons, yet composed of thread so fine, that it broke if you only blew upon it, and so tangled that it had neither beginning nor end.
  • And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs. Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.