more searches
33 wordies list

skein

(n): coils of worsted yarn
( more... )
Leave a comment, citation, or usage note
8 months ago mmalone said:


A message sent from the White House took only twelve minutes to come back to the transmitting telegraphers, having circumnavigated the planet via a now fully connected skein of cables, and at what was then a barely imaginable speed.

- Winchester, Simon (2005). A Crack in the Edge of The World. HarperCollins.

8 months ago adoarns said:

The much ballyhooed 7th release of Inform—a system for writing interactive fiction or text adventures—uses something they call the skein as a way to keep track of all the various ways you navigate your in-progress game, ie the braid of different threads of the adventure.

Register or login to leave a comment.
first listed by:
lanas (1579 words)
appears in these lists: