Keg vs Skeg - What's the difference?
keg | skeg |
A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
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To store in a keg.
* 2011 , Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)
* 2015 , Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)
(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.
(obsolete) A sort of wild plum.
(obsolete) A kind of oat.
* 1842 , Cuthbert William Johnson, The farmer's encyclopædia, and dictionary of rural affairs
(Australia, slang) A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
As nouns the difference between keg and skeg
is that keg is a round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer 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 a verb keg
is to store in a keg.keg
English
(wikipedia keg)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* barrelDerived terms
* keg standVerb
- He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
- Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.
Anagrams
*skeg
English
(wikipedia skeg)Noun
(en noun)- (Holland)
- SKEGS . A kind of oat, sometimes cultivated as a crop in Nottinghamshire. It is the Avena stipiformis of Linnaeus.