piggin
Example Sentences
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Once she ran squirrel-like out on the bole of a great tree leaning to its fall over the cliff, hung her piggin on a broken limb, and told him he must go after it.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
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 John Charles Frémont
He brought them water to the fence in a piggin, and with a wavering hand served it out in a gourd.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
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 Elizabeth Ware Pearson
I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.
From The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
