Meanings (ES + gloss)
lina • madeja
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.
Reche me that skane of tewly sylk; / And, Wynde me that botowme of such an hew, / Grene, rede, tawny, whyte, blak, purpill, and blew.
Some for very nede / Layde downe a skeyne of threde, / And some a skeyne of yarne; […]
enredo
A tangle, a weave, a web.
But first a little patience; first undo / This tangled thread, and wind it to a clue. / Ah, gentle! 'tis as weak as spider's skein; / And shouldst thou break it—What, is it done so…
[…] Achilles Tatius, with a feeling of much insecurity, awaited the unwinding of the perilous skein of state politics, […]
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