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SKEINER

Specialty Definition: SKEINER

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Occupations

Tends machine that winds narrow fabrics, such as tape, into skeins for dyeing or shipment: Draws fabric ends from box, threads each end through traverse guide, and ties end to reel. Turns dial to set yardage counter that stops machine when specified yardage has been wound. Presses pedal to start machine. Laces string through and around each skein to preserve arrangement and prevent tangling. Pulls lever to contract reel, slides skeins to end of reel, and removes skeins. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SKEINER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-n-r-s"

-1 letter: inkers, kernes, nereis, reinks, seiner, serein, serine, sinker.

-2 letters: ernes, esker, inker, keens, keirs, kerne, kerns, kiers, kines, kirns, knees, reeks, reink, reins, resin, rinks, rinse, risen, seine, serin, siker, siree, siren, skeen, skein, skene, skier, sneer.

-3 letters: ekes, erne, erns, inks, ires, irks, keen, keir, kens, kern, kier, kine, kins, kirn, kirs.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-k-n-r-s"
 

+1 letter: deerskin, kernites, kerosine, sickener, sneakier.

 

+2 letters: ankerites, deerskins, greensick, jerkiness, kerosines, knaveries, monkeries, perkiness, refusenik, reinvokes, rekindles, reseeking, sickeners, skewering, snickered, snickerer, streeking, tinkerers.

 

+3 letters: besprinkle, checkreins, creakiness, freakiness, inkberries, innkeepers, knackeries, noisemaker, quickeners, refuseniks, respeaking, restricken, rethinkers, silkscreen, skeltering, skreeghing, snickerers, thickeners, trinketers, winemakers.

 

+4 letters: awestricken, barkentines, besprinkled, besprinkles, brisknesses, corkinesses, irksomeness, jerkinesses, keratinizes, knobkerries, larkinesses, linebackers, misreckoned, murkinesses, noisemakers, periwinkles, perkinesses, persnickety, resketching, riskinesses, rockinesses, silkscreens, snickersnee, sprinklered, streakiness, trinketries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SKEINER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4B 45 49 4E 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-    .    ..    -.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001011 01000101 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#75 &#69 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004B 0045 0049 004E 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53453943483952

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1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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