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OP A term well known to small boat sailors, along with pintle, which is how we hang a removable rudder. From Ansted, A. ; A Dictionary of Sea Terms, Glasgow, 1928. "Goodgeons.--The fittings of a rudder to its sternpost. The goodgeons (pronounced gudgeons) ...are those bands of iron... The pintles are the long hooks which fall into the goodgeons....
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