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

Don't spec' you ebber did see a piggin.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

Once she ran squirrel-like out on the bole of a great tree leaning to its fall over the cliff, hung her piggin on a broken limb, and told him he must go after it.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

Go, every petticoat of you, and every child large enough to tote a piggin.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

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

When I gave it to Flora to fill, she said, "him name Harriet"—whether intended as a compliment to me or to the piggin I could not understand.

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

Related Words

• bucket