piggin

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To each mess was given a wooden kid, or piggin, as our farmers call them, because it is out of such wooden vessels that they feed their pigs that are fatting for the market.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

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

Yu kant larn a piggin tew fli slo, nor a snail tew trot fast.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

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)