See unskein in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From skein.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "unskeins",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "unskeining",
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"ref": "2003, Kay Armatage, The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent, page 56:",
"text": "\"Jess ... is assisting the hostess to unskein yarn and wind into a ball\"",
"type": "quote"
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"glosses": [
"To unwind from a skein"
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"ref": "1865, American Newspaper:",
"text": "\"In the sunshine his [Custer's] locks unskeined, stream a foot behind him\"",
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"To unfurl, as if from a skein"
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"etymology_text": "From skein.",
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},
{
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