duledge

English

Noun

duledge (plural duledges)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• deluged