calabash

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CALABASH, noun 1. A vessel made of a dried gourd-shell or of the shell of a calabash tree, used for containing liquors, or goods, as pitch, rosin and the like. 2. A popular name of the gourd-plant, or Cucurbita.
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