piggin

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A table and a settle stood by the window, and a dresser that was an armory of bright pewter dishes, trenchers, and piggins, crossed the opposite wall.

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir

A table and a settle stood by the window, and a dresser that was an armory of bright pewter dishes, trenchers, and piggins crossed the opposite wall.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

Mammy picked it up wherever she found it, beat it fine and used it on everything—shelves, floors, hollow-ware, milk pans, piggins, cedar water buckets—it made their brass hoops shine like gold.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha

Patie was in the habit of attending the neighbouring fairs with the water-cogs, cream-bowies, bickers, piggins, and other articles of his manufacture.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

I brings water from the well and they have what they call piggins, and they was little tubs with two handles.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration