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Definition of: yarn
(yärn) noun
1. Any spun material, natural or synthetic, prepared for use in weaving, knitting, or crotcheting.
2. Continous strands of spun fiber, as wool, cotton, linen, silk, jute, or rayon.
3. A quantity of such spun material.
4. Colloq. A long, exciting story of adventure, often of doubtful truth: a sailor spinning a yarn.
—v.i. Colloq. To tell a yarn or yarns. [OE gearn]
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