skeine

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English

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Noun

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skeine (plural skeines)

  1. Alternative form of skean

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Anagrams

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skeine

  1. skein, as of thread
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Vear'd nodhing mot Portheare. Na skeine e'er ee-waare.
      I feared nothing but Porter. No skein I ever wore.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67