English

Noun

gourdful ‎(plural gourdfuls or gourdsful)

1. 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.