puddling vs skein

puddling

noun
  • 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. 

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. 

verb
  • To wind or weave into a skein. 

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