piggin
Example Sentences
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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
On a low shelf stood a great piggin of water, a fat yellow drinking gourd sticking out of it.
From Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young
She had hung the little wooden piggin under the drip of the spring and it was full and running over.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
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 Mary Noailles Murfree
"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 Amélie Rives
