gudgeon

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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

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.

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

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

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas