skeg

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It was also missing a mast and "skeg board," the latter of which is used to stabilize the craft.

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  1. noun A timber that connects the keel and sternpost of a ship.
  2. noun An arm extending to the rear of the keel to support the rudder and protect the propeller.
  3. noun A series of timbers attached to the stern of a small boat, serving as a keel to keep the boat on course.

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  • 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.
  • It was also missing a mast and "skeg board," the latter of which is used to stabilize the craft. —  The Taunton Gazette Home RSS
  • Attaches to the skeg and controlled by the coxswain to steer the boat by attached cables.
  • 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. —  The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
  • The line was jammed in much worse than I had imagined and it had managed to slot itself in past the gap between the skeg and rudder and was firmly set. —  YBW News
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  1. Dutch scheg, perhaps from Old Norse skegg, beard, beak of a ship.

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  1. Also skag; from Icelandic skegg, a beard, the beak or cutwater of a ship; cf. Dutch schegge, knee (in technical use): see shag.
  2. Origin uncertain.
 

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