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

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

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

You’ve played the gudgeon for somebody; that’s all.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

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