- Di skeyne
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Yiddish-English phrasebook. 2013.
Di skeyne
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skeyne — skeyn(e obs. ff. skein, skene … Useful english dictionary
Skein — Skein, n. [OE. skeyne, OF. escaigne, F. [ e]cagne, probably of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. sgainne, Gael. sgeinnidh thread, small twine; or perhaps the English word is immediately from Celtic.] 1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
skein — I. noun Etymology: Middle English skeyne, from Middle French (Picard) escagne, probably from Vulgar Latin *scamnia, from *scamniare to wind yarn, from *scamnium rack for holding bobbins, from Latin scamnum bench, stool more at shambles Date: 14th … New Collegiate Dictionary
skein — /skayn/, n. 1. a length of yarn or thread wound on a reel or swift preparatory for use in manufacturing. 2. anything wound in or resembling such a coil: a skein of hair. 3. something suggestive of the twistings of a skein: an incoherent skein of… … Universalium
Mary Hammond (Tuam) — Mary Hammond (Tuam), Protestant refugee, fl. 1641 1642. Mary was the wife of William Hammond, Prebend and Clerk of Killabegs in the Diocese of Tuam. During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, attacks were made by the Gaelic Irish upon the English… … Wikipedia
