Skein

A skein of geese

Skein may refer to:

• A long coil of yarn or hair intended for weaving, dyeing, or heat setting. Bulk yarn is sold in skeins that often need to be re-wound into spools or balls depending on the application. A skein is not a specific unit of length.
• The flight of a flock of undomesticated fowl such as wild mallards or wild geese
• Skein (comics), a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Skein relation, a mathematical concept often used to give a simple definition of knot polynomials
• A winning streak in sports
• The Tangled Skein, a novel by Baroness Orczy

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