The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piggin \Pig"gin\, n. [Scot.; cf. Gael. pigean, dim. of pigeadh, pige, an earthen jar, pitcher, or pot, Ir. pigin, pighead, W. piccyn.] A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.
Wiktionary
n. (context dialect English) 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. It was used on farms for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, as a one-handed milk bucket, and as a grain scoop.
Usage examples of "piggin".
One of the Shaker women had sent a loaf of bread and a piggin half full of Shaker apple sauce to us.
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.
Kidskin about her, she took a piggin, and with wine and milk, she made a Sillibub for her dear Daphnis and herself.
I make sure that the boat piggin is not holed, that three gallons of drinking water in a canvas bag are on board for the men, and that the two boat knives which are attached to marlin line are stowed.
The eldest of the Maori crew has taken up the piggin and is dousing the whale-rope with sea water to keep it from bursting into flame.
She had to be more clever than he was since he oversaw the household accounts himself, but it was also quite possible that Tremont would eventually find Piggins out and dismiss him for his spurious record-keeping.
Eastlyn had learned of the habits of Tremont and Piggins in very little time.
I have suggested that Piggins be relieved of his position because he knows nothing about managing the farms or the tenants or the cattle, but Tremont will not hear a word against him.
His shooting companions clustered around, sand piggins empty, their shafts still jammed in straw targets.
Miss Jenkyns said, if he changed it to Piggins it would not be much better.
She had started life as Letty Piggins, the daughter of an impover ished Yorkshire farmer.
She had started life as Letty Piggins, the daughter of an impoverished Yorkshire farmer.
It was his job to wet the line with a small bucketlike container, called a piggin, once the whale was harpooned.