gourdful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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As much as a gourd wili carry

"Mother, make Harry bring me a gourdful fresh from the spring."
"She had been milked only a few hours before, and so he got only a gourdful from her."
"Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table."
"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."

From gourd + -ful.

gourdfuls (plural) gourdsful (plural)

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