gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

"You preach to your grandmother," retorted Crescence: "such a beanpole as you may open every shutter of her windows and '11 never catch a gudgeon."

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

A large upright post is placed on a gudgeon, with shafts extending horizontally 15 or 20 feet.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

Let the lever, used in the last experiment, be turned in such a manner as to reach from its gudgeon to the shaft of the Panorganon, guided by an attendant lever as before.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

Whaling is indeed a glorious sport, as far superior to your salmon fishing and fox hunting, as those diversions are to bobbing for gudgeon and chasing rats with a terrier.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various