Usually means: Fin on boat for stability.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeg: Merriam-Webster
  2. skeg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skeg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skeg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skeg: Vocabulary.com
  6. skeg: Wordnik
  7. skeg: Wiktionary
  8. skeg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. skeg: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. skeg: Dictionary.com
  11. Skeg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Skeg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. skeg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. skeg: Rhymezone
  15. Skeg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. skeg: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. skeg: FreeDictionary.org
  18. skeg: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. skeg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. skeg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skeg (surfing), skeg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeg, skeg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skeg: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. skeg: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Skeg: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Skeg: Latitude Mexico
  4. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skeg)

noun:  (nautical) A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.
noun:  (nautical) A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel.
noun:  A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
noun:  (obsolete) A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).
noun:  (obsolete) A kind of oat.
noun:  (Northern England) A look or glance.

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