piggin
Example Sentences
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The quiver of her face showed that she was losing her self-control, and turning away, she took the cedar piggin, and went out to milk Brindle for the last time.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
There was a piggin on one side of her to receive the quartered fruit, and on the other a white oak splint basket, already half full of the spiral parings.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
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 C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
A hoppergrass, one sunny day, Turning hand-springs amid the hay, O'erleaped himself, and fell into A piggin of good apple brew.
From Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 by Various
Bless yer soul, D'rindy, they hed a hole ez big ez that thar piggin, afore I thunk ennything 'bout'n it.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
