a flight of wild fowl, duck, or geese; a quantity of yarn; thread or silk taken from the reel.
Sitting
Size
Skein
Skelp
Skep, Skip
Examples: skein of geese (in flight)—Brewer; of wild geese; of human affairs; of shadowy hair; of policy; of state politics 1831; of silk; of thread; of wool; of worsted