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Definition of Gudgeons

1. gudgeon [v] - See also: gudgeon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gudgeons

Literary usage of Gudgeons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Essays on Mill Work and Other Machinery by Robertson Buchanan, Thomas Tredgold (1841)
"table of the diameters of gudgeons, and the weights which they may be supposed to sustain, ... EXPLANATION OP THB TABLE OF CAST °IRON gudgeons. 223. ..."

2. The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: Illustrated by Twenty-eight by Oliver Evans, Cadwallader Evans, Thomas Ellicott (1860)
"OF gudgeons, THE CAUSE OF THEIR HEATING AND GETTING LOOSE, AND REMEDIES THEREFOR. THE cause of gudgeons heating is the excessive friction of their rubbing ..."

3. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"gudgeons, in machinery, having all the weight on the shaft to support, ought'to be made sufficiently strong for. that purpose; while, to avoid unnecessary ..."

4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1824)
"Hughes'1 Improvement in the gudgeons of Water Wheels and Cranes. According to the present method of fixing the gudgeons or pivots into the wooden axles of ..."

5. A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1878)
"Strength of gudgeons. — The gudgeons, or ends of the wheel shaft on which it turns, have each to bear, when the wheel is unloaded and at rest, ..."

6. Elements of Mechanism: Elucidating the Scientific Principles of the by Thomas Baker (1852)
"The gudgeons in cast-iron axles are simply parts, or the extremities, ... The circular aperture, in which the gudgeons turn, are called brasses; ..."

7. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1880)
"The parts of a shaft which rest on the bearings are called pii '• collars, gudgeons, and journals. Pivots and collars are for bearing end-thrust (see ..."

8. Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America by Bénédict Henry Révoil, Chronicler (1865)
"—THE BLIND gudgeons OF THE MAMMOTH CAVES OP KENTUCKY. NORTH AMERICA, a country where nature affects proportions which belong not only to the sublime but ..."

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