sawed gourds

Verb

saw gourds (third-person singular simple present saws gourds, present participle sawing gourds, simple past sawed gourds, past participle sawed gourds or sawn gourds)

1. (intransitive, chiefly late-19th-century US slang) To snore very loudly.
   • 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.1870, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, chapter II, in The Heart of the Continent, page 91