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gudgeon1 1. a small slender European freshwater cyprinid fish, Gobio gobio, with a barbel on each side of the mouth: used as bait by anglers 2. any of various other fishes, such as the goby gudgeon2 1. a. a pivot at the end of a beam or axle b. the female or socket portion of a pinned hinge 2. Nautical one of two or more looplike sockets, fixed to the transom of a boat, into which the pintles of a rudder are fitted gudgeon [gəj·ən] (engineering) A pivot. A pin for fastening stone blocks. (naval architecture) Metal fittings on the sternpost of a boat or on the rudderpost of a ship on which the rudder is hung; the gudgeon forms the pivot point. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels, just here; and you can sit and fish for them all day. Here he found that the rudder had been all but unshipped, probably as the vessel was lifted over the reef during the storm, but a single pintle remaining in its gudgeon. She went out to the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her. |
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