leggins

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To each, also, a new hatchet, new knife, blanket, leggins, tobacco, paints, razor, mirror, ammunition, and a flask of sweet-smelling oil.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

B. J.—Say, Slim; that old horse will throw you so high that the sparrows will build nests in your leggins before you come down.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis

A scarlet worsted belt went around their waists, their breeches were of smoked buckskin, reaching down to three pairs of blanket socks and moose moccasins, with blue cloth leggins up to the knee.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian

Their leggins come half way up the thigh, and are sewed to their shoes: they are embroidered round the ancle, and upon every seam.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander

Here, we haven’t put on our leggins yet.”

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee