In Alabama a boy who snores saws gourds. 在阿拉巴马州,打鼾的孩子被叫做锯葫芦。
gourd
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bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
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any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
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any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
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Gourd \Gourd\, Gourde \Gourde\ n. [Sp. gordo large.] A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Haiti, etc. --Simmonds.
Gourd \Gourd\, n. A false die. See {Gord}.
Gourd \Gourd\, n. [F. gourde, OF. cougourde, gouhourde, fr. L. cucurbita gourd (cf. NPr. cougourdo); perh. akin to corbin basket, E. corb. Cf. {Cucurbite}.] 1. (Bot.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order {Cucurbitace[ae]}; and especially the bottle gourd ({Lagenaria vulgaris}) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
2. A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle. --Chaucer.
{Bitter gourd}, colocynth.
Gord \Gord\, n. [Written also {gourd}.] [Perh. hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.] An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
It's just a tradition, he said. "And you should see what some of them wear underneath their robes to express their individuality." "Some lawyers think they look good, others think I am out of my gourd," McGuane said.
The world record pumpkin was a 671-pound gourd raised by Robert Gancarz of Jacobstown, N.J., in 1986.
'OUT OF the gourd comes a pony' is a Japanese proverb for something pleasant but extremely unlikely.
But at least, come autumn 1995, there is a chance that the gourd will yield us up those magical fat men.
The guiro is a gourd with little ridges you scrape with a piece of wood.