gourds hell

The shell or rind of the gourd, which is used for drinking-cups, . "It [the catalogue of household utensils] consists of gourd-shells, which they convert into ve els that serve as bottles to hold water, and as baskets to contain their victuals and other things, with covers of the same; and of a few wooden bowls and trenchers of different sizes."Cook: Voyages, vol. vi., bk. iii., ch. 9. gourd-tree, s. Bot.: Crescent i a cujete , more frequently called in English the Calabash tree (q. v.). See also Crescent i a. gourd-worm, s. Zool .: The same as FLUKE-WORM (q. v.). It infests the liver of the sheep. *gourd (2), *gord, s . [O. Fr. gourt.] A kind of false dice, probably so called from being hollowed out. "To eke out your living. By fulham and gourd ." Scott : Fortunes of Nigel , ch. xxvii.