yarn
/jɑɹn/ noun B1- A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
- Bundles of fibres twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
- A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible. · spin a yarn
Plural yarns
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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That’s all there,” he indicated my bundle of papers, “and a mighty queer yarn you’ll find it.
Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
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