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