Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rind of a gourd, especially one used as a vessel. See
gourd , 2.
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Examples
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He rode the Arab slanting through the water, to where an old woman, sitting in her own silence and almost invisible before, was squatted in the water with brown bare shoulders emerging, ladling water from a half gourd-shell over her matted grey head.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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This is called "dillock," and is made in quantities at a time, being preserved in a large gourd-shell, generally suspended from the roof.
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From the gourd-shell the juice is emptied into a bottle formed from the skin of
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At one time I thought of a gourd-shell, but there was not one _dried_ in the town; so they told me.
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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Hung on the wheel was a small bone, wood, or earthenware cup, or a gourd-shell, filled with water, in which the spinner moistened her fingers as she held the twisting flax, which by the movement of the wheel was wound on bobbins.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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In their incantations over the sick they sometimes use the gourd-shell rattle.
Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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He now stood still, and pushed back from his forehead the superabundant and unkempt brown hair that flowed round his head like a lion's mane; then he approached the well, and as he stooped to draw the water in the large dried gourd-shell which he held, he observed first that the spring was muddy, and then perceived the goats, and at last their sleeping mistress.
Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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He now stood still, and pushed back from his forehead the superabundant and unkempt brown hair that flowed round his head like a lion's mane; then he approached the well, and as he stooped to draw the water in the large dried gourd-shell which he held, he observed first that the spring was muddy, and then perceived the goats, and at last their sleeping mistress.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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He now stood still, and pushed back from his forehead the superabundant and unkempt brown hair that flowed round his head like a lion's mane; then he approached the well, and as he stooped to draw the water in the large dried gourd-shell which he held, he observed first that the spring was muddy, and then perceived the goats, and at last their sleeping mistress.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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He now stood still, and pushed back from his forehead the superabundant and unkempt brown hair that flowed round his head like a lion's mane; then he approached the well, and as he stooped to draw the water in the large dried gourd-shell which he held, he observed first that the spring was muddy, and then perceived the goats, and at last their sleeping mistress.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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