I was listening to Sue-Belinda Meehan's show "Adventures in English" on ABC radio the other night, and one of her callers discussed the term 'Skein Dubh' meaning a kind of Scottish knife.
As an avid embroiderer, I was amazed by this use of the word skein, which to me has always been a bundle of embroidery floss. I thought I'd investigate further and I found a range of interesting meanings to skein:
As an avid embroiderer, I was amazed by this use of the word skein, which to me has always been a bundle of embroidery floss. I thought I'd investigate further and I found a range of interesting meanings to skein:
- anything wound in or resembling a coil, like hair.
- a flock of geese or ducks, in a v shaped formation of flight.
- a series of similar or interrelated things
- a mathematical concept(skein relation), and
- the name of a comic book supervillain
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