gourdful
English
Etymology
gourd + -ful
Noun
gourdful (plural gourdfuls or gourdsful)
- As much as a gourd will carry
- 1921, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Macaria:
- Mother, make Harry bring me a gourdful fresh from the spring.
- 1909, William Dean Howells, Boy Life:
- She had been milked only a few hours before, and so he got only a gourdful from her.
- 1900, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke:
- Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table.
- 1866, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866:
- 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.
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