duledge
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]duledge (plural duledges)
- (military) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
- 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IV, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
- The duledge pegs worked loose and dropped behind. Wheels began to break up.