skep

As nouns the difference between skew and skep

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 skep is a basket.

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.