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What is a piggin?

What is a piggin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dialect) A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc.
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One of the Shaker women had sent a loaf of bread and a piggin half full of Shaker apple sauce to us.
Bless yer soul, D'rindy, they hed a hole ez big ez that thar piggin, afore I thunk ennything 'bout'n it.
I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed.
Every bowl, tray, warming-pan, and piggin has gone to the mines.
When she reached Lonesome Cove she found the piggin where she had hid it, and milked the cow in haste.
Michael Piggin allegedly had a hit list of pupils and teachers he wanted to kill.

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