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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of guddle.

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Examples

  • "guddled" small trout in the streams of Paradise, and dived for the big ones in the deeper pools.

    Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

  • Ay: you may gape like a brace of guddled brandling:

    Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

  • I was never tired of hearing of her childhood on the braes of Raasay: how she guddled for mountain trout in the burn with her brother Murdoch or hung around his neck chains of daisies in childish glee.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • After that, daily she went farther and farther, watched me as I guddled for trout in the stream, aided me as I picked berries in the thickets, helped me with the deer I brought into camp.

    The Way of a Man Emerson Hough 1890

  • In a minute he came to the edge of the glen in which Andra Kissock had guddled the trouts.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • As lads together, indeed before we were long out of skirts, we guddled for fish in the burn-water; went birds 'nesting, raced our ponies, fought each other behind the stables and made a common stock of our money for the purchase of dimpies, peoys and jelly-tarts.

    Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

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