skeans

A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.

A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, 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.

A web, a weave, a tangle.

The membrane of a fish ovary.

(wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

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

A winning streak.