葫芦

calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) / hoist / generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof) / muddled / (poker) full house

Allium scorodoprasum / bottle gourd

rush / reed / Phragmites communis

zucchini

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly

sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu

fenugreek

sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu

hand chain pulley block

lever pulley block

solve one problem only to find another cropping up

pelican / same as 鵜鶘|鹈鹕

pneumatic hoist pulley

Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] in northeast China

Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] in northeast China

hulusi, aka cucurbit flute (a kind of free reed wind instrument)

what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?

electric chain pulley block

lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom) / fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification

magic gourd, granting your every wish

Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼|张天翼[Zhang1 Tian1 yi4]

lever hoist pulley