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skeg

[ UK /skˈɛɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost

How To Use skeg In A Sentence

  • At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
  • The boots are light (50 ounces), completely waterproof (our feet stayed dry even after soaking in muskeg for 12 hours at a time), and ... ONTARIO KNIFE RAT-7
  • 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. Undefined
  • Of that land base, less than half is productive forestland, the balance made up of swamps, lakes, muskeg and rocks.
  • With rampant racism throughout both the government and the military, McIlwain endured hate and abuse that most Americans couldn't conjure in a nightmare as he embarked on a personal journey of courage and determination, becoming one of the country's first black fighter pilots - one of the famed Tuskegee Heroes or Villains?
  • Exactly a year earlier in the Tuskegee courthouse, his congressman, Tom Heflin, had attacked him as a liar and troublemaker, a fomenter of racial strife, a dangerous Negro. Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
  • It was because it refused to die that he still ate muskeg berries and minnows, drank his hot water, and kept a wary eye on the sick wolf.
  • The lowlands of the island are blanketed with muskeg, a type of bog up to 3 feet deep with a hard crust on top.
  • Attaches to the skeg and controlled by the coxswain to steer the boat by attached cables. Undefined
  • Then I saw the problem: the boat's skeg, or fin, essential for maintaining a straight-line course, was flopping loosely in its groove on the stern.
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