calabash

• The operation is simply as follows A portion of sand or clay (for gold is sometimes found in a brown coloured clay) is put into a large calabash, and mixed with a sufficient quantity of water. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• For a Californian to criticize Hawaii's voters on the issue of gay rights may look like the pot calling the calabash black -- but Hawaii Insider is more disappointed in its lawmakers for lacking the courage at least to vote on the bill, rather than let it languish in committee. —  SFGate: Top News Stories
• But since it has been proven that all that transcendence is only a calabash, and that the philosopher has been declared subject to common [23] sense, the servant, like everyone, of practical and empirical reason, it is very necessary for philosophy to humanize itself, and that it should be democratic and social, or else never be anything. —  In the Libertarian Labyrinth
• He wore an anklet of dried seeds that rattled above his right foot; as he stepped over the sand in rhythm with the music of a wind instrument made of a long-necked calabash, and the thrumming of a snake-skin drum played by two assistants, he called upon Tumwah to look down upon them and to pity their unhappy plight. —  The Black Phantom
• Drink, senor, drink it all In ten seconds after the calabash is empty Now eat the tortillas. —  The Lone Ranche

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