A group of mallards (ducks).
The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
The action of forming a puddle.
The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
A behaviour in which animals like butterflies seek out moist substances to obtain nutrients.
The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
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.
To wind or weave into a skein.