What is the meaning of Skein?

A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.

A thing resembling a skein (noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc.

1. The membrane of a fish ovary.
3. A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

   The membrane of a fish ovary.

   A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.

   Synonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)”).

   1. A tangle, a weave, a web.
   2. A winning streak.
   3. A series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).

   A tangle, a weave, a web.

   A winning streak.

   A series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).

   To weave or wind (thread, yarn, etc.) into a skein (noun sense 1).

   To intertwine or weave (something) with another thing.

   A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.

   A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle of a wagon.

   (kvæði) scratch, small wound

   shone, singular past of skína (to shine)

   first-person singular past active indicative of skína

   third-person singular past active indicative of skína

   second-person singular active imperative of skeina

   simple past of skinne

   past of skina

   first/third-person singular past active indicative of skína

   Source: wiktionary.org