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GOURD
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English
English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Gourd.
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English
English : possibly a variant spelling of Gourd.
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English
English : perhaps an occupational name for a maker of bottles or cups, from Old French gourde ‘water vessel’, ‘flask’, but possibly of the same derivation as 2.French : from Old French gourd ‘heavy’, ‘dull’, ‘sluggish’, hence a nickname for a slow lumbering person.
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Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a place in Berwickshire (Borders), named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.English (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -Ånis.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mag Mhuirneacháin, a patronymic from the personal name Muirneachán, a diminutive of muirneach ‘beloved’.Jewish (from Lithuania) : probably a habitational name from the Belorussian city of Grodno. It goes back at least to 1657. Various suggestions, more or less fanciful, have been put forward as to its origin. There is a family tradition among some bearers that they are descended from a son of a Duke of Gordon, who converted to Judaism in the 18th century, but the Jewish surname was in existence long before the 18th century; others claim descent from earlier Scottish converts, but this is implausible.Spanish and Galician Gordón, and Basque : habitational name from a place called Gordon (Basque) or Gordón (Spanish, Galician), of which there are examples in Salamanca, Galicia, and Basque Country.Spanish : possibly in some instances from an augmentative of the nickname Gordo (see Gordillo).
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GOURD
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Hedged Meadow
Boy/Male
Tamil
Hiranmaya | ஹிரஂமய
Golden, Made of gold
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, Danish, English, Jamaican
Fortunate; Short Form of Alicia; Felicia; Letitia; Happy; Joy; Truth
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
One who Describes
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English
From the estate on the ridge.
Biblical
his son
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Anglo Saxon English Scottish
From the birch meadow.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Lord Vishnu
Girl/Female
Hindu
Season
Boy/Male
Biblical
He that is heard; he that is obeyed.
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A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
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A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.
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A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.
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Alt. of Gourde
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A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.
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Swelled in the legs.
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The state of being gourdy.
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Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
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A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
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The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
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A false die. See Gord.
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The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
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A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.
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A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.
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A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
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The common gourd (plant or fruit).