gudgeon

[ US /ˈɡədʒən/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈʌd‍ʒɒn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
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How To Use gudgeon In A Sentence

  • There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
  • There were very large numbers of gudgeon, roach, dace, chub and skimmer bream stranded in the field following the floodbank breaching and whilst this resulted in some deaths, a large number were returned to the river.
  • Catfishes, rainbow fishes, gobies and gudgeons are particularly common. Lorentz National Park, Indonesia
  • Brian caught his first fish, a gudgeon, from the river Tees as a young boy in the 1940's fishing with a Bakelite float.
  • Five or six head staves are fitted together with wooden dowels or stainless steel gudgeons (headless nails) Then the head is cut to size, usually slightly oval in shape.
  • Don't you see, my dear fellow, that if you ever hooked a gudgeon, you have as certainly caught the republisher? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
  • The parts of the hinges are called the pintle (the pin) and gudgeon (the opening into which the pin fits). Sailing Fundamentals
  • The FEM for the assembly parts of piston, gudgeon pin and small-end of connecting rod is constructed to investigate a diesel engine piston with an oscillating-oil-cooling channel.
  • There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
  • He catches salmon with gudgeons. 3 If you dine at his house, he has an intention on you. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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