gudgeon

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Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Every morning the boy from the Weirs arrived with freshly caught gudgeon, and now and then an eel or trout, which the scouts on the staircase had learnt to fry delicately in oil.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

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

Next to those should be ranked the white river-fish, which have scales, as pike, perch, gudgeon.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus