On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:01:21 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:49:35 PM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote:

As a Sailor (live aboard for more then 10 years) I might repair a sail
with needles and thread but string is what you tie up Christmas
presents with.

I also lived aboard for a decade. I also worked on a lot of sails. I also did long distance racing on
large sailboats. I'm a life member of the second oldest yacht club on
San Francisco bay. And we always called it Sailmakers Yarn or String.
Perhaps they have different terms in Outer Mongolia. Thread is for
darning the holes in your socks.

Strange that. I can only assume that Californians are really
different. In the sail making trade "yarn" is the usual term for the
stuff that the sail is woven from.

http://www.uksailmakers.com/news/201...erforming-yarn
http://www.uksailmakers.com/encyclop...-1-sail-cloth/
http://www.sanders-sails.co.uk/materials.html

String, in reference to sails, means a totally different thing. See:
https://www.sail-world.com/Australia...?source=google

Sailmaking thread is what the industry calls the stuff you sew sails
with.
https://www.sailmakerssupply.com/cat...ad-and-needles

And finally, stockings are darned with thread, or yarn in the case of
heavy "boot socks".

But then, you really don't know do you. You just make it all up as you
go along. As they say in Outer Mongolia, a "Bull **** Boy".