gudgeon

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The gudgeon pin is hardened, ground and secured in connecting rod, and is allowed to work in piston.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred

Nothing is so certain to take; the gudgeon will tempt the pike there when an ordinary roach may be displayed before him without the slightest effect.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

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

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