A dialectal or archaic term for a fishing rod or a similar tool, possibly a variant of 'gauge' or related to 'dredge.'
Of uncertain origin; possibly related to Old English 'gad' (pointed tool) or dialectal variants. The exact etymology is obscure, but it may connect to tools used in fishing or measuring.
Many fishing and farming tool names have been completely lost to time—'gudge' survives only in old dictionaries and regional speech, a ghost word that reminds us how much vocabulary simply vanishes when the tools themselves become obsolete.
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