gudgeon

1. n. A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. Source: opted

2. n. What may be got without skill or merit. Source: opted

3. n. A person easily duped or cheated. Source: opted

4. n. The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal. Source: opted

5. n. A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. Source: opted

6. v. t. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. Source: opted

7. n. 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 Source: wordnet

8. n. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers Source: wordnet

9. 1. (Zoöl.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. 2. What may be got without skill or merit. Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Shak. 3. A person easily duped or cheated. Swift. 4. (Mach.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal. 6. (Naut.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. Ball gudgeon. See under Ball. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. [R.] To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you. Sir IV. Scott. Source: webster

10. A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied tothe carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait.In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. Source: adambom

11. n. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers Source: ecdict

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