gourd
part of speech
noun (a gourd, gourds)
meaning for a pupil
1) A large fruit with a hard skin, related to pumpkins and melons, often dried and hollowed out. tree →
2) A container, bottle or bowl made from a dried gourd, used for water or as a musical rattle. tree →
3) (US, slang) Out of your gourd means crazy or silly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and geography lessons gourds are early water bottles and instruments (maracas); at Halloween and harvest festivals, decorative gourds. Phrases: a water gourd, a gourd rattle, out of your gourd.
examples
- The traveller drank water from a gourd. tree →
- We painted gourds for the harvest festival. tree →
- Maracas were first made from dried gourds. tree →
- Pumpkins, squashes and gourds belong to the same family. tree →
- In Argentina people drink mate tea from a gourd. tree →
- Are you out of your gourd? It's snowing and you're in shorts! tree →
- Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips. tree →
note
Say GORD or GOORD. Plural gourds. Most decorative gourds are not good to eat. Out of your gourd is informal US slang.
In the corpora
- So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.
- But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Trees and pragmatics
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