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gourdful en · NOUN

Etymology

From gourd + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a gourd wili carry
   • Mother, make Harry bring me a gourdful fresh from the spring. 1921, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Macaria:
   • Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table. 1900, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke:
   • She had been milked only a few hours before, and so he got only a gourdful from her. 1909, William Dean Howells, Boy Life:
   • I had a grim sense of amusement on finding that the old woman was not deaf, for she went out, and presently came back with a gourdful, which I eagerly drank. 1866, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866:

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