skeg
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun A timber that connects the keel and sternpost of a ship.
- noun An arm extending to the rear of the keel to support the rudder and protect the propeller.
- noun A series of timbers attached to the stern of a small boat, serving as a keel to keep the boat on course.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A kind of wild plum, Prunus spinosa or P. insititia.
- noun The yellow iris, Iris Pseudacorus. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names
- noun plural A kind of oats.
- noun The stump of a branch.
- noun A wooden peg.
- noun The after part of a ship's keel; also, a heavy metal projection abaft a ship's keel for the support of a balance-rudder. See cut under balance-rudder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun a fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard
Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Depending on who you talk to, this pioneer may have been Tom Blake in 1934, who got the idea from talking to a speedboat skipper about the skeg on his boat; or it may have been invented in the mid-Forties by Woody Brown, who was a glider pilot and sailor in Hawaii and knew a lot about fins and wings and fluid dynamics; or it may have been his friend, surf legend Bob Simmons.
Note
The word 'skeg' may come from an English dialect word meaning 'stump' or 'branch'.
