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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Mil.)

One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.

Wilhelm.

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.
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- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian page 45
  The duledge pegs worked loose and dropped behind. Wheels began to break up.