What is the meaning of Skein?

A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together in an oblong shape, 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.

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

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

A winning streak.

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

To wind or weave into a skein.

(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