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gudgeon

(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
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2 months ago chained_bear said:

"Two pintles and two gudgeons: fittings for a boat's rudder."
--Steven Callahan, Adrift, 61

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