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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gourd
noun
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▪ Gourd artist Alice Hunter of Tavares will teach pine-needle weaving, demonstrating how to decorate rims of gourds with pine needles.
▪ After harvesting, the gourd is plunged into wine must before being cut into two.
▪ But what do we make of that gourd business?
▪ He cuts up bleached gourds to be the skulls.
▪ I felt hollow, like a dried gourd, a few loose seeds shaking uselessly inside me.
▪ In Hawaii, a large gourd is worn like a mask, inside which the voice resonates.
▪ Long gourds are the preferred form for slapping against the thighs.
▪ Q: I have made several attempts to grow gourds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gourd

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gourd

c.1300, from Anglo-French gourde, from Old French coorde, ultimately from Latin cucurbita "gourd," of uncertain origin, perhaps related to cucumis "cucumber."

Wiktionary
gourd

n. 1 Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera ''Lagenaria'' and ''Cucurbita'' (in Cucurbitaceae). 2 A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in ''Lagenaria'' or ''Cucurbita''. 3 The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. 4 (context obsolete English) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers. 5 (context informal English) loaded dice.(reference-book last= Brewer first= Ebenezer Cobham date= 1898 title= Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that Have a Tale to Tell url= http://books.google.com/books?id=pgoPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA541 location= publisher=Henry Altemus Company page= 541 accessdate= December 8, 2014) 6 (context slang English) head.

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gourd

  1. n. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: calabash]

  2. any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

  3. any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds [syn: gourd vine]

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Gourd

A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria or the fruit of the two genera of Bignoniaceae "calabash tree", Crescentia and Amphitecna.

The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. Likely one of the earliest domesticated types of plants, subspecies of the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, have been discovered in archaeological sites dating from as early as 13,000 BC. Gourds have had numerous uses throughout history, including as tools, musical instruments, objects of art, film, and food.

Gourd (disambiguation)

Gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, and/or its fruit.

Gourd may also refer to:

  • The Gourds, a musical group
  • List of gourds and squashes, species in the genus Cucurbita
  • Gourd Lake, a lake in Minnesota
  • Loaded dice
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Usage examples of "gourd".

I have here in my gourd A draught of wine, yea, of a ripe grape, And right anon ye shall see a good jape.

Gamba to Dian, as they met beside the stream where Dian was filling a large gourd with water and Gamba was washing the lioncloths of his mistress.

So Randolph Carter thanked the Zoogs, who fluttered amicably and gave him another gourd of moon-tree wine to take with him, and set out through the phosphorescent wood for the other side, where the rushing Skai flows down from the slopes of Lerion, and Hatheg and Nir and Ulthar dot the plain.

Randolph Carter thanked the Zoogs, who fluttered amicably and gave him another gourd of moon-tree wine to take with him, and set out through the phosphorescent wood for the other side, where the rushing Skai flows down from the slopes of Lerion, and Hatheg and Nir and Ulthar dot the plain.

The mozo from the town, having fastened his horse to a wooden post before the door, was telling them the news of Sulaco as the blackened gourd of the decoction passed from hand to hand.

Viha Nata was there, as she had promised, and wordlessly extended a clay gourd of water.

The girl held a gourd against her thigh, its nubbly gold and orange a bright splotch of color on the pale fawn skin.

There is extant among the works of Seneca a little treatise called Apocolocuntosis, that is, pumpkinification, or the metamorphosis into a gourd, a sharp satire levelled against the apotheosis of the Emperor Claudius.

Gathering his gourd, bowl, and chicken carcass, the skald withdrew and Harald came before the assembly, declaring himself pleased that so many had answered his summons.

Gourds filled with a greenish liquor that was dipped from a troughlike container made of a hollow log, passed among the assembled voodooists quite often.

The beer was brought in great gourds, the oxen roasted whole over the pits of glowing coals, and the lithe Yuye maids danced naked, their yellow bodies glistening with oil in the sunlight.

When the player struck the marimba with small hammers, the gourds gave out soft, plaintive tones, perfectly in key.

The marimba player was packing up his gourds, anxious to get away from this dangerous vicinity.

With another laugh, the marimba player continued the jest by plucking one of the larger gourds from beneath the keyboard.

He was plucking gourds from his marimba, like grapes off a bunch, and tossing them behind him.