gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

"I don't want these cold things; haven't you kept me any gudgeon?"

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

The miller’s thumb is about the size of a gudgeon, to which it is allied, but has a head broader than its body, whence it gets its other name of “bull-head.”

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway

And it is well known that the Cardinal de Granville said at Rome, when the two Counts had been taken: “The two gudgeon, verily, have been caught, but the pike has been allowed to escape.”

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de