piggin

Example Sentences

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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.

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

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 Pearson, Elizabeth Ware

On a low shelf stood a great piggin of water, a fat yellow drinking gourd sticking out of it.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)

She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat.

From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles