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.

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.

"A say if ever a piggin was in sore need o' a new link, 'tis that one," saith she.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Rives, Amélie

Yu kant larn a piggin tew fli slo, nor a snail tew trot fast.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

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