piggin
Example Sentences
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There was a noggin, a piggin, a churn, a homemade chair; there was a quilt from a grandmother and a pioneer cradle—a mere trough scooped out of a walnut log.
From The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen
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 Joel Chandler Harris
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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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 C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
"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 William Carleton
