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skein
noun
- a quantity of thread or yarn wound in a coil
- something like this, as a coil of hair
- a flock of wild fowl
- a sequence of events, esp. a series of games won or lost by a team: a 20-game winning skein
See skein in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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