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Example sentences for "piggin"

Lexicographically close words:
pigeons; piggeries; piggery; piggie; piggies; piggish; piggledy; piggs; piggy; pight
  1. A little piggin is used for bailing the boat, and, when hoisted on a boat hook, is the signal for more lines.

  2. The mate's boat had signalled for more lines by putting a piggin on a boat-hook, and another boat had stood by and bent on.

  3. 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.

  4. As she came up the slope with the piggin on her head, her husband was looking down from the porch with a lowering brow.

  5. When she reached Lonesome Cove she found the piggin where she had hid it, and milked the cow in haste.

  6. At the sound of a human voice Luke Todd's wife struggled to her feet She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat.

  7. Tis the good bowl of milk she'd give him, and not the piggin of cold water.

  8. She moved forward suddenly into the shelter as Evelina started anew toward it, holding the piggin in one hand and clasping the baby in the other arm.

  9. Evelina had placed the piggin upon the straw-covered ground, and stood among the horned cattle and the huddling sheep, her soft melancholy face half shaded by the red shawl thrown over her head and shoulders.

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

  11. 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.

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


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piggin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.