piggin
Example Sentences
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I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed.
From The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
On a low shelf stood a great piggin of water, a fat yellow drinking gourd sticking out of it.
From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)
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.
I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.
From The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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.
