Словарь синонимов английского языка - yarn

(n) 1. thread, fibre, strand: I haven't enough yarn to finish knitting these socks. 2. tale, stori, account, narrative, anecdote; tall tale, fable, fabrication, fiction, cock-and-bull story, Colloq whopper, Brit fishing story, US fish story, fish tale: The old salt had many yarns to spin during the long evenings by the fire.