boule vs skein

boule

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

noun
  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

skein

verb
  • To wind or weave into a skein. 

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

  • A winning streak. 

  • The membrane of a fish ovary. 

  • A web, a weave, a tangle. 

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

  • A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, 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. 

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