Meaning

• A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.

• A web, a weave, a tangle.

• The membrane of a fish ovary.

• (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

• (provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.

• A winning streak.

Meaning

• To wind or weave into a skein.