Sorry to disturb again. I found another page with information: http://www.bmhs.ednet.ns.ca/tourism/wool.htm and there is said: "It was eventually wound off, however, on a hand reel called a niddy nodder (knitty-knotter), or on pegs into the spokes of the spinning wheel or in later days, on a clock reel that clicked when forty strands had been wound. Any of these systems produced forty strand hanks, fifty four inches around. Seven hanks or knots of wool made a skein. Six skeins were a good day's spinning at the end of which the spinster had walked miles - half of them backward."
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