piggin
Example Sentences
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Once she ran squirrel-like out on the bole of a great tree leaning to its fall over the cliff, hung her piggin on a broken limb, and told him he must go after it.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
Got old Peter to make me a piggin for fresh water in my chamber; as they always carry everything on their heads, a pail is no advantage.
From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Pearson, Elizabeth Ware
"And I," said another, "am indebted to the thief o' hell for the loss of as good a cow as ever filled a piggin."
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
There was a piggin on one side of her to receive the quartered fruit, and on the other a white oak splint basket, already half full of the spiral parings.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
Go, every petticoat of you, and every child large enough to tote a piggin.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
