Posted by ScottyHOMEy on April 27, 2009 at 14:58:04 from (70.105.254.131):
In Reply to: more trivia posted by ken in texas on April 27, 2009 at 13:53:03:
Most gudgeons the pin that goes through them is known as a pintle. A gudgeon is to a pintle as a mortise is to a tenon.
More common usage on this side of the tall water is nautical. On tiller boats, the pintles are the hinge pins that provide the support and pivot points for a rudder. The gudgeons are the fittings on the rudder blade that fit over the pintles, and also slip back off for stowing the tiller and rudder.
For a more trivial reference at least to the gudgeon or, more precisely, the pintle that goes with it, we can go to the old Robert Burns poem, later put to music called, "Nine Inch Will Please A Lady."
Written from a woman's perspective, it allows (translated from Scots to English) as how, "We'll take two thumb-breadths to the nine, and that's a sonsy pintle." Not sure how to translate sonsy, but you get the picture.
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