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# gourd

«gourd» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large fruit with a hard skin, related to pumpkins and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#m1)

2) A container, bottle or bowl made from a dried gourd, used for water or as a musical rattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#m2)

3) (US, slang) Out of your gourd means crazy or silly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x1)
- We painted gourds for the harvest festival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x2)
- Maracas were first made from dried gourds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x3)
- Pumpkins, squashes and gourds belong to the same family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x4)
- In Argentina people drink mate tea from a gourd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x5)
- Are you out of your gourd? It's snowing and you're in shorts! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x6)
- Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.47/)
- [But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.48/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gourd» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.