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often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.

The European black goby (Gobius niger).

or closed by the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of a lever. -- Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock. -- Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as…

ugh a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

Same as Gudgeon, 5.

To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton.

A small gudgeon.

A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam. Trunnion plate (Gun.), a plate in the carriage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. -- Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon nex…

A gudgeon. [Prov. Eng.]

of the small feathers covering the bases of the wing quills. See Covert, n., 2. -- Wing gudgeon (Mach.), an iron gudgeon for the end of a wooden axle, having thin, broad projections to prevent it from turning in the wood. See Illust. of Gudgeon. -- Wing shell (Zoöl.), wing case of an insect. -- Wing stroke, the str…