flask vs gourd

flask

noun
  • A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask. 

  • Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base. 

  • A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds. 

  • A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. 

  • A bed in a gun carriage. 

verb
  • To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold. 

gourd

noun
  • The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration. 

  • Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae). 

  • A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita. 

  • loaded dice. 

  • Head. 

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