The ipu is made from the bodies of two larger pear-shaped calabashes of unequal sizes, which are joined together at their smaller ends in such a manner as to resemble a figure-of-eight.
After I had gone on board, the natives came to the beach with calabashes full of water, and they delighted much in giving it to us.
If the canoe capsizes, they all promptly begin to swim, and to bale it out with calabashes that they take with them.
In the bottom were a number of carved paddles, a mast wound about with a mat-sail, several calabashes containing water, and some cocoa-nuts.
About half an hour before noon, a number of the natives whom we had seen in the morning, again made their appearance, with several large calabashes of water, and a quantity of taro and bread-fruit for our use.
We all sat round on mats in the primitive fashion, the food being placed before us either in calabashes or on large leaves.
Calabashes grow everywhere in South Africa, and it is by this vegetable the monkey is generally trapped.
Native beer, made from corn, is brought in large quantities in hollow calabashesby the guests.
Groves of palm-trees were very abundant, and I could see numerous calabashes hanging at the tree-tops, ready to receive the sap, which is called palm wine.
This boulder stood by the path leading to the spring which supplied the villagers with drinking water, and the women of the village were constantly going with their calabashes to get the cool water.
Hung to the roof were also large quantities of calabashes which had been hardened by the smoke.
As regards the milk also, one has to be very careful to see that the calabashes are clean.
However, the negroes brought us some big calabashes full of native beer.
In the above photograph a field fetish, in the form of two calabashes joined together, is seen in the tree on the left; this is supposed to make the corn grow plentifully.
Then I took my tea, and passed the time of day with the women and girls who came with huge calabashes on their heads to get water.
They had to run a certain distance, carryingcalabashes of water, the prizes going to those who succeeded in spilling least.
The metate for grinding or rubbing down the maize to be patted out into tortillas, a few calabashes for bottles, and pieces of calabashes for bowls and cups, prettily ornamented and painted, and hanging on pegs round the walls.
Beyond a few calabashes scraped smooth and ornamented with coloured devices, and the blue patterns on the women's cotton skirts, there was scarcely anything to be seen in the way of ornament.
When you see the woodlice eating the bottles, hang your calabashesout of their reach.
When you see the wood-lice eating the pots, the calabashes can't be expected to resist.
The calabashes are taken down, and replaced by others, every morning and evening.
When this woman had been with us about a week, her husband came to Captain Harrison, bearing with him a present of two calabashes of palm-wine, and a couple of fowls, intimating his wish to have the child restored to him.
When the Captain was seated, a small ram, and several calabashes of palm-wine, were brought forward.
His Majesty, however, had not come unprovided, his canoe having been stored with some calabashes of palm-wine, which he sent for and distributed freely.
On the banks of the Mississippi, the negroes stick up long poles, with calabashes on the ends, to accommodate the martins.
The North American Indians, who have a great regard for martins, cut off all the top branches of a young tree, and leave the prongs a foot or two in length, and hang hollow gourds or calabashes on the ends for nests.
Behind some rocks we come upon a few huts, all empty but for some calabashes of water and some fetish rags.
But the old man's retreat was exceedingly comfortable; especially abounding in mats for lounging; his rafters were bowed down by calabashes of good cheer.
Babbalanja philosophizes, and my Lord Media passes round the Calabashes 48.
It was Media who broke the spell; calling for Vee-Vee our page, his calabashes and cups, and nectarines for all.
The people of the country remark, with a simple truth of expression, that calabashes filled with cocuyos are lanterns always ready lighted.
The gold-dust collected by this labour was put into calabashes of the Crescentia cujete and sold to the Dutch at Essequibo.
In the afternoon our interpreters returned to camp with Mohamedoo's son, accompanied by a dozen women carrying platters of boiled rice, calabashes filled with delicate sauce, and abundance of ture, or vegetable butter.
The frugal repast was washed down by calabashes of cool water, which were handed round by naked damsels, whose beautiful limbs might have served as models for an artist.
It was composed of about 400 men, marching in good order, with corn and ground nuts in large calabashesupon their heads.
Meat was handled with big four-tined forks of wood; poi and other soft dishes in calabashes of coco shell and shallow wooden platters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calabashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
