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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Gudgeon

Gŭd'geon, n.

noun

(gŭd'jun), n. [Fr. goujon, fr. Lat. gobio, or gobius, Gr. κωβιός. Cf. GOOGING and GOUGE.]

  1. A small fresh-water fish (the Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught, and often used for bait.
  2. A person easily cheated or insnared. Swift.
  3. A bait; allurement. Shak.
  4. (Mach.) The piece of iron in the end of a wooden shaft on which it turns in a collar or on a gudgeon block; formerly, the part of any horizontal shaft on which it runs.
  5. (Naut.) An eye or clamp fastened to the stern-post to hang the rudder on.
An engraved illustration of a fish identified as a gudgeon.
Gudgeon (Gobio fluviatilis).
A wooden shaft with a gudgeon, shown separately as a cross-shaped fitting.
Gudgeon.

Gūd'geon, v. t.

verbtransitive

(gūd'jun), v. t. To fraudulently deprive; to cheat. [Rare.] “To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you.” W. Scott.