As we were absolutely destitute of large vessels, to contain and mix liquids, we poured, by means of atutuma (fruit ofcrescentia cujete,calabash), the water of the river into one of the holes of the rock. To this we added sugar, and the juice of acid fruits. In a few minutes we had an excellent beverage, which was almost a refinement of luxury in that wild spot;[…]
1870, “Goso, the Teacher”, inEdward Steere, transl.,Swahili Tales, as Told by Natives of Zanzibar. With an English Translation, London:Bell & Daldy,[…],→OCLC,page287:
There was a teacher who taught children to read under acalabash tree, and this teacher's name was Goso.
1839 January,“L.”, “The Calabash (Cucurbita Lagenaria)”, inThe Visitor, or Monthly Instructor, London:The Religious Tract Society;[...] sold by John Davis,[…],→OCLC,page75:
Thecalabash, is a kind of gourd, and belongs to that family of twining plants which were called among the Hebrews, "wild vines," but by the botanists of modern times, thecucurbitaceæ, or cucurbitaceous plants.[…] That playful variety of form and magnitude, so remarkable in thecalabash, renders it fit for all kinds of uses. Sometimes we have a globular base, terminating in a long neck, and then it answers the purpose of a bottle, and the American fastens it to his girdle, or the pommel of his saddle, when about to pass through regions which abound not in water.
2008,James A. Duke, with Peggy-Ann K. Duke and Judith L. duCellie, “Catalog of ‘Faith-based’ Farmaceuticals”, inDuke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible, Boca Raton, Fla.:CRC Press,→ISBN,page233:
CALABASH GOURD (LAGENARIA SICERARIA)[…] Appropriately bowing to AHP, theAmerican Herbal Products Association, for the betterment of the herbal industry, I will now use its standardized common name,Calabash Gourd, a vine, not to be confused with the Calabash tree (Crescentia).
2009, Charlie Nardozzi and editors of the National Gardening Association, “Sweet Corn and an A to T of Other Worthy Veggies”, inVegetable Gardening for Dummies (For Dummies series), 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.:Wiley Publishing,→ISBN, part II (Vegging Out),page167:
Asian gourds grow like cucumbers[…] and feature strong flavors that are often used in Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian soups and stews. Some types to try in your garden include the bitter gourd andcalabash gourd.
A container made from themature,driedshell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarlyshaped container made from some othermaterial.
OnSunday,Oct. 12. being ſtored vvith all things needful for their Journey,viz. Ten Days Proviſion, a Baſin to boil their Provision in, twoCalabaſhes to fetch VVater in, and tvvo greatTallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Svveet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for Shoes, to keep their Feet from Thorns, becauſe to them they chiefly truſted.
1799,Mungo Park, “Of Gold-dust, and the Manner in which It is Collected.—Process of Washing it.—[…]”, inTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797.[…], London: Printed byW[illiam] Bulmer and Co. for the author; and sold byG[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol,[…],→OCLC,page302:
[T]he manner of separating the gold from the sand, is very simple, and is frequently performed by the women in the middle of the town; for when the searchers return from the valleys in the evening, they commonly bring with them each acalabash or two of sand, to be washed by such of the females as remain at home.
[page 65] The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stainedcalabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.[…] [page 105] [I]t seemed to me that he was dogging us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine. This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silvercalabash;[…]
Saje put thecalabash in the king's hands. There was a hush from the crowd. Thecalabash was large and painted with beautiful designs. Few people had seen it up close.
[T]he motorcycle drivers say that new helmets are too expensive and instead have been found wearing pumpkin-likecalabashes – dried fruit shells usually used to carry water – cooking pots tied with string or strips of rubber from old tyres.
A calabash and itscontents; as much asfills such a container.
Amuta and the twelve-year-old have producedcalabashes of palm wine and are busy pouring out healthy drams into the cupped hands of black and white alike.
2015, Michael[D.] Jackson, “Petra’s Letter”, inHarmattan: A Philosophical Fiction, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex:Columbia University Press,→ISBN, part 2 (Harmattan),page122:
It was dusk by the time Yandi reappeared, carrying acalabash of parboiled rice and a peanut and chili sauce on his head.
1814, Jerom Merolla da Sorrento, “A Voyage to Congo, and Several Other Countries, Chiefly in Southern Africk.[…]”, inJohn Pinkerton,A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World;[…], volume XVI, London: Printed forLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,and Brown,[…]; andCadell and Davies,[…],→OCLC,page245:
The inſtrument moſt in requeſt uſed by the Abundi, being the people of the kingdom of Angola, Matamba, and others, is the Marimba; it conſiſts of ſixteencalabaſhes orderly placed along the middle between two ſide-boards joined together, or a long frame, hanging about a man's neck with a thong. Over the mouths of thecalabaſhes there are thin ſounding ſlips of red wood called Tanilla, a little above a ſpan long, which being beaten with two little ſticks, returns a ſound from thecalabaſhes of ſeveral ſizes not unlike an organ.
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