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piggin

[pig-in] / ˈpɪg ɪn /
NOUN
pail
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A hoppergrass, one sunny day, Turning hand-springs amid the hay, O'erleaped himself, and fell into A piggin of good apple brew.

From Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 by Various

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)

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)

At thought of him and of this, Jeff Poindexter, reperched on his wabbly piggin, wove his furrowed brow into a closer and more intricate pattern of cordial dislike.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Aunt Nancy, expecting this, had used up in cooking all that had been brought: consequently her daughter had to take the piggin and go to the spring after a fresh supply.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler