gudgeon
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“Well,” Clay returned, “there’s a gudgeon up on shore that evidently wants to get hold of your hook, and you with it.”
From The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel by Gordon, Harry
But while gazing thus in the air the gudgeon was suddenly swallowed up by a treacherous pike who had hurled himself upon him like a flash of lightning.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
In yonder hole; I must catch a few gudgeon and have a troll.
From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.
And many a gudgeon of the pond, If made to speak to-day, Would own, with grief, the angler had A mighty taking way!
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various
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