As nouns the difference between skew and skeg
is that
skew is (architecture) a stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place while
skeg is (nautical) a fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.
As an adjective skew
is (mathematics) neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).
As a verb skew
is to change or alter in a particular direction.
As an adverb skew
is awry; obliquely; askew.
