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gudgeon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gobio gobio |
| Type of | cyprinid, cyprinid fish |
gudgeon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | goby |
| Type of | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean |
| Has types | mudspringer, mudskipper |
Examples of gudgeon
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Besides trout, the stream also supports the minnow, the gudgeon and the loach.
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First depiction of a pintle-and gudgeon rudder on church carvings dating to around 1180.
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Fully floating hollow gudgeon pins of hardened nickel-chrome steel.
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Well, I've always thought gudgeon was the woodiest word of all.
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The best enticement is fresh stripped bait paired with a gudgeon.
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Three compression and one oil-control ring above the gudgeon pin, and one oil-control ring below.
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It has a good range of fish, including roach, bream and gudgeon, which make it popular with anglers.
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Anglers will find pike in excess of 20 lb, with good stocks of chub, dace, roach, bream, tench, perch, rudd, and gudgeon.
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Historically, the radical concept of the medieval pintle-and-gudgeon rudder did not come as a single invention into being.
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- Goby: small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
- Small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
- A gudgeon is a circular fitting, often made of metal, which is affixed to a surface. It allows for the pivoting of another fixture. It is generally used with a pintle, which is a pin which pivots in the hole in the gudgeon. As such, a gudgeon is a simple bearing.
- Gudgeon is a common name for a number of small freshwater fishes of the families Cyprinidae, Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae. Most gudgeons are elongate, bottom-dwelling fish, many of which live in rapids and other fast moving water.
- (Gudgeons) Metal eyes mounted on the stern into which the rudder pintles are shipped.
- (GUDGEONS) English term for pivots upon which rests the headstock of a swinging bell. The axis of the swing is at this point.
- The hole in which the pin from a stern mounted rudder fits. The pin is known as a pintle.
- A peg protruding from the Headstock and reaching into the bearing.
- A pivot, usually of metal, fixed on or let into the end of a beam, spindle, axle, etc., and on which a wheel turns, a bell swings, or the like.
