piggin

Example Sentences

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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

One of the Shaker women had sent a loaf of bread and a piggin half full of Shaker apple sauce to us.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

"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

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)

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)