piggin

[ pig-in ]

noun

1. Dialect. a small wooden pail or tub with a handle formed by continuing one of the staves above the rim.
2. cream pail.

piggin

/ ˈpɪɡɪn /

noun

1. a small wooden bucket or tub Also calledpipkin

Word History and Origins

Origin of piggin¹

First recorded in 1545–55; perhaps akin to pig ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of piggin¹

C16: origin unknown

Example Sentences

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

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On an upturned watering-piggin alongside Mittie May's stall in the stable back of the house, Jeff sat and just naturally gloomed.

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She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat.

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He brought them water to the fence in a piggin, and with a wavering hand served it out in a gourd.

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

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Related Words

• bucket