Crossword clues for biggin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biggin \Big"gin\, n. [F. b['e]guin, prob. from the cap worn by the B['e]guines. Cf. Beguine, Biggon.] A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
An old woman's biggin for a nightcap.
--Massinger.
Biggin \Big"gin\, n. A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.
Biggin \Big"gin\, Bigging \Big"ging\, n. [OE. bigging. See Big, Bigg, v. t.] A building. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context archaic English) A child's cap; (''figuratively'') childhood. 2 (context historical English) An official's hood or coif. 3 Coffee pot that has separate areas for heating the coffee and water. 4 A building; a bigging. Etymology 2
alt. A coffee pot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured. n. A coffee pot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured.
WordNet
n. a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin
Wikipedia
Biggin can refer to:
- Biggin (Dovedale and Parwich Ward), Derbyshire, in the Peak District
- Biggin Hill a town in London
- London Biggin Hill Airport an airport near Biggin Hill, London
- Biggin by Hulland, Derbyshire, near Hulland
- Biggin, North Yorkshire
- Biggin, Warwickshire
- Biggin, Essex
- a nightcap
- coffee pot with a separate container to hold the ground coffee (named after its inventor)
Biggin is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. It is part of the Hartington Nether Quarter parish, and is in the Peak District National Park.
Biggin was once known as Newbiggin, when it had a monastic settlement of the Cistercian order, established by the monks of Garendon Abbey, Leicestershire. The monks established a sheep ranch at Biggin Grange, which still has one ancient outbuilding. Farming is still important to the village, though at one time (18th Century) it was also a centre of lead mining. When the lead started to be worked out, there was a migration of lead miners to Upper Teesdale, and they probably took the name Newbiggin there. Today tourism is the main industry.
Usage examples of "biggin".
He and Biggins, Kellog and Bianco and the two reporters now sitting at the pool site, pretending to type stories on the gutted Compaq, were all employees of KFAL in Kansas City.
Mark Biggins was born in Mankato, Minnesota, one of seven children, and the oldest son of a devout Irish Catholic family.
How the muse happened to visit him in this clay biggin, take a fancy to a clouterly peasant, and teach him strains of consummate beauty and elegance, must ever be a matter of wonder to all those, and they are not few, who hold that noble sentiments and heroic deeds are the exclusive portion of the gently nursed and the far descended.
There and then Lily Biggins had decided that there was no room in her new life for a great daughter of thirteen.
Dorcas pegged her jockey cap on the head of a marble statue of the great local hero, Smuggler Jim Biggins, and jamming her red hair behind her ears, squared her shoulders and got down to the serious business of twiddling dials.
Sumter and Marion then proceeded against the post at Biggin, held by Col. Coates of the British army, a spirited officer, with a garrison of five hundred infantry, one hundred and fifty horse, and one piece of artillery.
Corner, or Biggin Church, and some other small posts on that to Camden.
Sumter and Marion then proceeded against the post at Biggin, held by Col.
Kent police cars streaked down rain-soaked streets toward Biggin Hill Executive Airport.
Teabing was provided with what he wanted here at Biggin Hill, and the employees reaped the benefits.
Villette, and then at Biggin Hill airport, this was the first possible moment.
On the rainy tarmac at Biggin Hill Executive Airport, Aringarosa emerged from his cramped plane, bundling his cassock against the cold damp.
At the French authorities' request, Kent police had ordered the Biggin Hill air traffic controller to radio the Hawker's pilot and order him directly to the terminal rather than to the client's hangar.
It was a dispersal point, a place to hide precious fighters to protect them from bombing raids on the main centers like Biggin Hill.