Results for yarn
Definitions of yarn:
part of speech: verb intransitive
part of speech: noun
Wool spun into thread fit for the weaver; the thread spun loosely from such substances as cotton, flax, and hemp; one of the strands of a rope; among seamen, a familiar term for a story spun out by a sailor for the amusement of his messmates, who is said then to spin a yarn.
part of speech: noun
Heavy thread spun out of wool; colloquially, an unlikely or exaggerated story, especially a tale of sea life.
part of speech: noun
Spun thread: one of the threads of a rope: a sailor's story ( spun out to some length).