different between skeg vs skep

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

English

Etymology

Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

skep (plural skeps)

1. A basket.
2. A beehive made of straw or wicker.
   • 1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command

     He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.

   • 2020, Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

     She installs seven skeps at the furthest edge of the garden; on warm July days it is possible to hear the restless rumble of the bees from the house.

Derived terms

• beeskep

Translations

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sk?p, from Proto-Germanic *sk?p?. Cognates include Old English s??ap, Old Saxon sk?p and Old Dutch sc?p.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ske?p/, [?sk??p]

Noun

sk?p n

1. sheep

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr: schep

  Goesharde: schäip

  Mooring: schäip

• Saterland Frisian: Skäip
• West Frisian: skiep

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Norse

Verb

skep

1. first-person singular present indicative active of skepja
2. second-person singular present imperative active of skepja