skein
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- verbTo weave or wind (thread, yarn, etc.) into a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
- nounA thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Less common
- #2,450 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 65% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None