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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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Michael Piggin allegedly had a hit list of pupils and teachers he wanted to kill.
She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat.
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.
He brought them water to the fence in a piggin, and with a wavering hand served it out in a gourd.
As she came up the slope with the piggin on her head, her husband was looking down from the porch with a lowering brow.
Every bowl, tray, warming-pan, and piggin has gone to the mines.

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