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 Allen, James Lane

Don't spec' you ebber did see a piggin.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

"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

Picking up a cedar piggin, she stepped from the porch toward the meek voice that had answered her.

From A Cumberland Vendetta by Fox, John

There was a piggin on one side of her to receive the quartered fruit, and on the other a white oak splint basket, already half full of the spiral parings.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles