piggin
Americannoun
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Dialect. a small wooden pail or tub with a handle formed by continuing one of the staves above the rim.
noun
Etymology
Origin of piggin
First recorded in 1545–55; perhaps akin to pig 2
Example Sentences
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She had hung the little wooden piggin under the drip of the spring and it was full and running over.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
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 Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
Picking up a cedar piggin, she stepped from the porch toward the meek voice that had answered her.
From A Cumberland Vendetta by Fox, John
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
"A say if ever a piggin was in sore need o' a new link, 'tis that one," saith she.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Rives, Amélie
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