Definition of "skeg" []

• A timber that connects the keel and sternpost of a ship. (noun)
• An arm extending to the rear of the keel to support the rudder and protect the propeller. (noun)
• A series of timbers attached to the stern of a small boat, serving as a keel to keep the boat on course. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This section, a part of the keel called a skeg, aids a cruise ship by helping it move linearly and by protecting its propeller and rudder."
• "You guya ahould have used some mud tires it would have helped u guys lots in the skeg btw thenks for the sweet photos abd the sweet story"
• "After a gosling is a month or six weeks old you may put it up to feed for a green goose, & it will be perfectly fed in another month following; and to feed them, there is no better meat then skeg oats boil'd, and given plenty thereof thrice a day, morning, noon, and night, with good store of milk, or milk and water mixt together to drink."