LekhoriLekhoriA cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework.
Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric.
Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.).
the threads of a spiderweb
From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognates Cognate with Yola dreade (“thre...
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To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
to thread through narrow passages