piggin

Example Sentences

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One of the Shaker women had sent a loaf of bread and a piggin half full of Shaker apple sauce to us.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

"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

Very coolly the lad caught it from her, broke it in two, threw it away, and picking up a piggin went out without a word to milk, leaving her aghast and outdone.

From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John

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.

At thought of him and of this, Jeff Poindexter, reperched on his wabbly piggin, wove his furrowed brow into a closer and more intricate pattern of cordial dislike.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)