Meaning of saw gourds | Babel Free

Definitions

To snore very loudly.

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Examples

“I thought of these things with a tendency to philosophize, but Zeno himself would have⟳ gone to sleep⟳ after such a day as I had spent. In five minutes, thoughtless and philosophers, we were all “sawing gourds” together in the land⟳ of Nod.”

“He set⟳ by the fire a chawin his tobacco and swapped lies with us untill bed time, and we put⟳ him in the surplus room and he sawed gourds so, it was after midnight before we got to sleep⟳.”

“The fuse burnt down to the skin and went out, but Cudjo still continued to saw⟳ gourds, apparently in no wise incommoded by the burning of the fuse.”

“When a farmer gits a good run⟳ of stock⟳ and various and sundry crops growin around him, with the natural increase⟳ in full swing⟳, he is in the middle of the big road that leads right on to the land⟳ of peace and plenty and love⟳ and liberty. When the day’s work⟳ is done, and the gold of evenin meets the dusk of night, he can draw⟳ his bobtail night shirt about him and tumble down to pleasant dreams, knowin that while he sleeps and dreams and saws gourds his worldly possessions are growin and stackin up all the time.”

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