What is "skeins"

Usage examples of "skeins".

Young ones were supposed to be lively, but no one could remember anything like the maniacal energy that those four displayed: dancing maddeningly in circles for hour after hour, singing and chanting long skeins of nonsense, clambering hand over hand up the shaggy walls of the cocoon and swinging from the ceiling.

Her glance traveled the length of the lawn, and this too looked as if it had been spread with a cloth of gold or perhaps an ancient tapestry woven with skeins of russet and copper, burnt ocher and chrome yellow.

But it was not that easy to separate the tangled skeins of the political web.

It was onion soup again, dark and thick, with skeins of cheese stringing across the surface.