piggin

Example Sentences

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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 Cable, George W.

"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 Rives, Amélie

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

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles

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 Ashe, E. M.