Green’s Dictionary of Slang

skein of thread n.

a bed.

1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 5: It will give you something to rabbit to the trouble about in the skein.
2002		B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.