piggin

Example Sentences

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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 Frémont, John Charles

"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

"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 Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

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

I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.

From The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)