单词	skein
释义	skeinskein /skeɪn/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINskein Origin: 1400-1500 Old French escaigne Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A knotted skein of nylon straps was looped round his chest. But now, the old skein of mutual responsibility was unraveling. Goneril slunk into the kitchen and wound her body like a fat skein of wool around my feet. He rose, walked round the table and picked up the skein. Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town. Priscillian's own teaching was characterised by a marked strain of Nestorian thought, as well as by skeins of Gnostic Manichaeanism. The runway had upon it a light skein of mist, and he sailed through it and up into the high air. There was a sadness, formless as a skein, enveloping us. 1a long loosely wound piece of thread, wool, or yarn2literary a complicated series of things that are related to each other SYN  web:  a skein of lies
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