Meanings
alternative like a martin to its gourd
- USregionalsimileStraight, unerringly, directly.
The ball flew to its mark like a martin to his gourd and Lucky Ned Pepper fell dead in the saddle.
1968, Charles Portis, True Grit1 more example
Whether all of the above was reason enough I don't know, but I left East St. Louis and, like a martin to its gourd, I headed back to the cotton fields of southeastern Missouri.
2008, Paul Self, No Lower Place, page 219
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like a martin to his gourd. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/like%20a%20martin%20to%20his%20gourd
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