piggin
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Don't spec' you ebber did see a piggin.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
"I suppose you have forgotten me," King said, as he put his valise on a wash-bench by a tub of suds and a piggin of lye-soap.
From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
One of the Shaker women had sent a loaf of bread and a piggin half full of Shaker apple sauce to us.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Every bowl, tray, warming-pan, and piggin has gone to the mines.
From The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont
When I gave it to Flora to fill, she said, "him name Harriet"—whether intended as a compliment to me or to the piggin I could not understand.
From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Elizabeth Ware Pearson
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