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
You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
A large upright post is placed on a gudgeon, with shafts extending horizontally 15 or 20 feet.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
But the truth is not to be found in eating gudgeon and that I proclaim aloud!
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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
