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  • noun As much as a gourd will carry

Etymologies

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gourd +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • He glanced around, sipping a second gourdful of the water.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • Being able to cross the waterless districts by a couple of long marches, they content themselves for the time with a small gourdful, and with keeping their imaginations dwelling upon the copious quantities they will drink upon arrival at the watering-place.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • The gourdful of thin gray stew contained, so he presumed, the rubbery flesh of an overage chicken.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • The gourdful of thin gray stew contained, so he presumed, the rubbery flesh of an overage chicken.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Suellen, sullen and tearful, pretended to faint too, but came back to consciousness spitting like an angry cat when Scarlett poured a gourdful of water in her face.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Alfred was busy carrying the afflicted man water by the gourdful from the spring.

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

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