Gourds, whether they are small and warty or large with long crooked necks, are part of the Cucurbitaceae family.
The ones with especially crooked necks and warts are more flavorful and have a firmer texture.
For example, EF-1α (EW997053) and EF-2 (EW997067/EW997555 in cluster 7), as well as several other proteins involved in protein synthesis, were identified, including crooked neck-like 1 protein (CK656728) involved in pre mRNA splicing.
Said his neck all crooked, color a rhubarb stalk".
Each character's name is a guide to the entertainment to be expected: the energetic Mr Pancks invariably rakes his hair upright and steams about like a tugboat; Mr Sparkler rants about "damn fine women with no nonsense about them"; Mr Flintwinch, with his wry neck and crooked necktie, perpetually screws himself into sinister corners.
I got some Superglue and tried to put it all back together, hide it from my mum, but I was 10 years old and it was a botched-up job – the head wasn't straight, the neck was all crooked and I had glue all over my hands.
How crooked is too crooked?
Trump had already signalled as much via the two-word label he likes to hang around the neck of his Democratic opponent: Crooked Hillary.
Dad Harry Joe Lisii) can't get through the day without drinking, might have hit his wife and is addicted to gambling and up to his neck in debt to a crooked cop called Nick Pappas James McCaffreyy).
Today they're toppling Stands of tamarack and pine and firs, And eighty-year-old oak, Maple, apple, ash, removing them From fields behind our house, Sturdy birch, cedar with a crooked shoulder The cows would rub their necks on, And deer, woodchuck, turkey, Pheasant, hawk, mourning dove, owls, Mature trees removed thoughtlessly, unnecessarily – To build a clutch of progress.
