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Skeg vs Skep - What's the difference?

skeg | skep |

As nouns the difference between skeg and skep

is that skeg is a fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller while skep is a basket.

skeg

English

(wikipedia 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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    skep

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a basket
  • a beehive made of straw or wicker
  • :* 1977': He prised a '''skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons. — Patrick O'Brian, ''The Mauritius Command

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