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Meanings of gudgeon in English

Portuguese
cavilhão
Spanish
tintero

Part of the rudder.

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      cavilhão
      Catalan
      gòbit

      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.

            gòbit
            Catalan
            gòbit

            Small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers.

                  gòbit

                  Common name for several species of fish.

                        Usage of gudgeon in English
                        1
                        Gradually the whale became a porpoise, and the porpoise became a gudgeon.
                        Robur the Conqueror
                        2
                        The fish commonly caught are mullet, perch, barbel, gudgeon, bream, and chub.
                        Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
                        3
                        Not enough, sir, to catch the merest fresh-water gudgeon that swims.
                        Home as Found / Sequel to "Homeward Bound"
                        4
                        The kinds most common are barbel, carp, dace, bleak, and gudgeon.
                        The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3: ...
                        5
                        She had caught him like a fisherman hooks a gudgeon.
                        The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 / Boule de Suif and Other...
                        6
                        Birds and fishes in cases stared glassily,-owland kestrel, jack and eel and gudgeon.
                        Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,...
                        7
                        There are not any gudgeon even worth talking about.
                        The Witch, and Other Stories
                        8
                        They are seen from a whale to a gudgeon.
                        A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
                        9
                        A few large roach with the fly, and one pike with a gudgeon,- anoblefellow!
                        Lucretia — Volume 01
                        10
                        He is a great big silly bull-headed gudgeon.
                        Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
                        11
                        Tom Thumb warmed me up eventually; its gudgeon had been taken, and I had something in secure custody.
                        Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
                        12
                        A gudgeon has taken the pin.
                        Child Life in Town and Country / 1909
                        13
                        And one may turn, wholeheartedly and inspired, to see what can be made of one's own catch of gudgeon.
                        She Stands Accused
                        14
                        But the gudgeon looked at him with his great eyes, and asked, "Have you got good teeth?"
                        Old Peter's Russian Tales
                        15
                        I appealed to his generosity, if there be room for generosity about a trout no bigger than a gudgeon!
                        Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 1
                        16
                        O my jolly dapper boy, thou hast given us a gudgeon; I hope to see thee Pope before I die.
                        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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                        Translations for gudgeon
                        Portuguese
                        cavilhão
                        Spanish
                        tintero
                        Gudgeon through the time