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gudgeonAny of an Old World group of freshwater fishes of the carp family, especially the species G. gobio found in Europe and northern Asia on the gravel bottoms of streams. It is olive-brown, spotted with black, and up to 20 cm/8 in long, with a distinctive barbel (sensory bristle, or ‘whisker’) at each side of the mouth. (Genus Gobio, family Cyprinidae.) |
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The river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels, just here; and you can sit and fish for them all day. Here he found that the rudder had been all but unshipped, probably as the vessel was lifted over the reef during the storm, but a single pintle remaining in its gudgeon. She went out to the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her. |
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