piggin
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I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.
From The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 John Fox
Go, every petticoat of you, and every child large enough to tote a piggin.
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
"I suppose you have forgotten me," King said, as he put his valise on a wash-bench by a tub of suds and a piggin of lye-soap.
From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
There was a noggin, a piggin, a churn, a homemade chair; there was a quilt from a grandmother and a pioneer cradle—a mere trough scooped out of a walnut log.
From The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen
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