piggin

Example Sentences

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He brought them water to the fence in a piggin, and with a wavering hand served it out in a gourd.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

Picking up a cedar piggin, she stepped from the porch toward the meek voice that had answered her.

From A Cumberland Vendetta by Fox, John

Very coolly the lad caught it from her, broke it in two, threw it away, and picking up a piggin went out without a word to milk, leaving her aghast and outdone.

From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John

There was a noggin, a piggin, a churn, a homemade chair; there was a quilt from a grandmother and a pioneer cradle—a mere trough scooped out of a walnut log.

From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane

She had hung the little wooden piggin under the drip of the spring and it was full and running over.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.