Spun yarn

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

spun yarn
    n 1: (nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope
         made of several rope yarns loosely wound together

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spun \Spun\ (sp[u^]n),
   imp. & p. p. of {Spin}.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Spun hay}, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage,
      as on a military expedition.

   {Spun silk}, a cheap article produced from floss, or
      short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in
      distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon.
      It is often mixed with cotton.

   {Spun yarn} (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns
      loosely twisted.
      [1913 Webster]