Thesaurus / gourd
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CONTENT RELATED TO GOURD
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I will cook, and I’m setting up a fall table with leaf and gourd decorations and a sweet pecan pie candle.
I WILL BE LONELY ON THANKSGIVING. BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP ME FROM CELEBRATING.KELLIE B. GORMLYNOVEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POST
A gourd is tied to an upper branch of a palm which is then tapped and the sap drops into the vessel.
A JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN THE CONGO FREE STATEMARCUS DORMAN
This was probably the Wild Vine or gourd which the young prophet gathered, and which produced "death in the pot."
THE ROMANCE OF PLANT LIFEG. F. SCOTT ELLIOT
Then a gourd comes up over Jonah and protects him from the sun, but the next day it withers.
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOY
He lifted a smiling moonlit face; his half-suppressed laugh echoed gurglingly in the gourd.
THE MOONSHINERS AT HOHO-HEBEE FALLSCHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK (AKA MARY NOAILLES MURFREE)
Suddenly the old man raised his lean hand, shaking a gourd filled with pebbles, and began softly to chant.
THE HEART OF THE DESERTHONOR WILLSIE MORROW
When the liquor has twice boiled, they pour it into a jar, and in cooling it use the half of a gourd.
ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORYVACA AND OTHERS
Cucurbit, kū′kur-bit, n. a chemical vessel used in distillation, originally shaped like a gourd.
The gourd called churakhai, palmyra fruit, and palmyra jaggery are taboo to the Nambūtiri at all times.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTON
A candle was lighted, and introduced through a hole at the bottom of the gourd, and all mounted upon a pole some ten feet long.
THE MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARSWILLIAM H. SPARKS
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.