skein

Chilton often patrols his ranch, driving with a gun over skeins of dirt roads.

But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.

It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will.

The legal debate is just one skein in the tangle of moral, political and economic concerns that the potential seizure of Russia’s reserves poses.

Thick skeins of wires hooked up to generators form a canopy over the neighborhood.