Definitions
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- noun As much as a
gourd will carry
Etymologies
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Examples
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He glanced around, sipping a second gourdful of the water.
Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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