English to Irish Meaning of skein - scáinne

Skein :

scáinne

noun

scáinne, snaidhm

Skein :: scáinneSkeins :: skeins

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Definitions of skein in English

Noun(1) coils of worsted yarn

Examples of skein in English

(1) Today the winery, owned by the large Stimson Lane firm, makes a skein of wines in several tiers.(2) Caught in a skein of unresolved tensions, unspoken fear, and undefined destinations, the children adjust in their silent, obscure manner.(3) There, the rivers give way to a skein of smaller rivers and enter the salt sea.(4) Each skein of yarn sat neatly in its place, the loom itself dominating the room.(5) Above, the final skein of Pinkfooted Geese, over wintering from Greenland honked their noisy way to their evening roost on the sand-banks of the River Ribble.(6) The one parcel I got from her was nice - a skein of cotton yarn, chiba needles, and some incense.(7) Rubble na Mickies concludes the trilogy by drawing strands from the previous novels into a tangled skein .(8) They did it by wrapping them in a skein of giant airbags.(9) Given Twelfth Night's tangled skein of interwoven plots and deluded lovers, there is plenty of comic potential.(10) The blue train sped with the precision of a skein of geese in flight.(11) I once stood on this spot and watched a skein of migrating geese flap their way in perfect chevron formation through the great cleft of the Lairig an Laoigh below, their wings cutting through the air with a rhythmic whoosh.(12) Wil's formative years are shrouded in mystery, concealed from the public by a skein of lies and deceptions so complex that it has taken more than a decade for Wheaton researchers to unravel.(13) It is impossible to knit from a skein without getting the wool in a knot.(14) a skein of lies(15) A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.(16) Once, after being disturbed by a low-flying helicopter, the full skein remained airborne almost an hour before side-slipping and tumbling out of the sky.

(1) skeet shooting ::

lámhach skeet

Synonyms

1. tangle ::

tangle

2. mole ::

mole

3. imbroglio ::

imbroglio

4. skein ::

scáinne

5. knot ::

snaidhm

6. complication ::

complication

7. savory ::

blasta

8. sapid ::

blasta

Different Forms

skein, skeins

English to Irish Dictionary: skein

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