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View synonyms for piggin

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.


piggin

/ ˈpɪɡɪn /

noun

  1. a small wooden bucket or tub Also calledpipkin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of piggin1

First recorded in 1545–55; perhaps akin to pig 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of piggin1

C16: origin unknown
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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