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English
Noun
skeine (plural skeines)
- Alternative form of skean
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Anagrams
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Etymology
From Middle English skayne, from Old French escaigne.
Pronunciation
Noun
skeine
- 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.
References
- 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