skeg
IPA: skˈɛg
noun
- (nautical) A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.
- (nautical) A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel.
- A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard.
- (Australia, slang) A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
- (obsolete) A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).
- (obsolete) A kind of oat.
- (Northern England) A look or glance.
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Examples of "skeg" in Sentences
- This skeg is also molded into the hull.
- It has a skeg mounted rudder and a fin keel.
- The skeg can be added as an additional board.
- It had a 7 foot draft and a skeg hung rudder.
- I think skeg is much the same by all accounts.
- This link explains the subtleties of the kayak skeg.
- This kayak has a skeg so is very maneurverable and steady.
- The board was without a skeg, which had yet to be invented.
- In the eighties the term skeg was used to refer to a surfer.
- This type of skeg is pictured at the bottom of the same linked page.
- A windsurfers skeg acts in a more complex manner to that of a surfers.
- Attaches to the skeg and controlled by the coxswain to steer the boat by attached cables.
- * Aluminum frame reinforced stern acts as a skeg, increasing the tracking performance; new tracking fin further enhances tracking
- You guya ahould have used some mud tires it would have helped u guys lots in the skeg btw thenks for the sweet photos abd the sweet story
- This section, a part of the keel called a skeg, aids a cruise ship by helping it move linearly and by protecting its propeller and rudder.
- A fin-like crease, or 'skeg,' ran from behind the front wheel opening to the rear of the car on the extreme lower body sides and there were special vertical crest medallions on the trailing edge of rear fenders.
- After a gosling is a month or six weeks old you may put it up to feed for a green goose, & it will be perfectly fed in another month following; and to feed them, there is no better meat then skeg oats boil'd, and given plenty thereof thrice a day, morning, noon, and night, with good store of milk, or milk and water mixt together to drink.