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)

She had hung the little wooden piggin under the drip of the spring and it was full and running over.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

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.

Picking up a cedar piggin, she stepped from the porch toward the meek voice that had answered her.

From A Cumberland Vendetta by Fox, John

"And I," said another, "am indebted to the thief o' hell for the loss of as good a cow as ever filled a piggin."

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William