A small and slender part of the keel of a ship, cut slanting, and left a little without the stern-post; not much used now, owing to its catching hawsers, and occasioning dead water. The after-part of the keel itself is also called the skegg.
Stout pieces of plank put up endways under the skegg of the ship, to steady the after-part when in t...
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