piggin

American  

[pig-in] / ˈpɪg ɪn /

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.

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piggin British  

/ ˈpɪɡɪn /

noun

1. Also called: pipkin.  a small wooden bucket or tub

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Etymology

Origin of piggin

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

Example Sentences

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 Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Aunt Nancy, expecting this, had used up in cooking all that had been brought: consequently her daughter had to take the piggin and go to the spring after a fresh supply.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

Got old Peter to make me a piggin for fresh water in my chamber; as they always carry everything on their heads, a pail is no advantage.

From Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) by Pearson, Elizabeth Ware

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

"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 Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

Related Words

• bucket