different between keg vs skeg

English

Etymology

From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”). Cognate with Icelandic kaggi (“keg; cask”), Norwegian kagg (“keg”), Swedish kagge (“keg”), Low German kag (“vessel; craft”), Dutch kaag (“vessel; craft”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (dated, Southeastern Midwest of the U.S.) IPA^(key): /kæ?/
• (dated, New England, Virginia, South Carolina) IPA^(key): /ke??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

keg (plural kegs)

1. A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

Coordinate terms

• sixtel

Derived terms

• kegger
• keg stand
• pony keg
• powder keg

Translations

Verb

keg (third-person singular simple present kegs, present participle kegging, simple past and past participle kegged)

1. (transitive) To store in a keg.
   • 2011, Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)

     He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.

   • 2015, Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)

     Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.

References

Anagrams

• EKG

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

skeg (plural skegs)

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

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6. (obsolete) A kind of oat.
   • 1842, Cuthbert William Johnson, The farmer's encyclopædia, and dictionary of rural affairs

     SKEGS. A kind of oat, sometimes cultivated as a crop in Nottinghamshire. It is the Avena stipiformis of Linnaeus.

Translations

References

• skeg at OneLook Dictionary Search
• skeg in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• kegs