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skeg

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4 lettersPronunciation /skɛɡ/Part of speech nounSorted egksStarts with SEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost

Word origin

From a dialectal term for a stump, branch, or wooden peg; compare Swedish skog. Compare shaw.

Used in a sentence

  • Some take them for Damascen plums, or rather for Bullois, Skegs, or such like wilde Plums.
  • SKEGS. A kind of oat, sometimes cultivated as a crop in Nottinghamshire. It is the Avena stipiformis of Linnaeus.

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