skeine

English

Noun

skeine (plural skeines)

  1. Alternative form of skean

References
  • skeine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne.

Noun

skeine

  1. skein, as of thread

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 67
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