hog-pen

American English can (noun) tin checkers (game) draughts cow-catcher plough elevator lift ferns bracken hog-pen piggery hood (automobile) bonnet

SPEAK AMERICAN News from Mad Plato 2006

American English can (noun) tin checkers (game) draughts cow-catcher plough elevator lift ferns bracken hog-pen piggery hood (automobile) bonnet

Archive 2006-05-01 News from Mad Plato 2006

It came on me soon aftah I come out of the wah, an 'it growed on me like jim'son weeds in a hog-pen.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Dey stacked 'em up out of big logs jus 'lak dey made hog-pen fences.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

Here Johncrow drew the carcass from the hog-pen, and sure enough a shot had cut the poor Purser's head nearly off.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various

Finally I prevailed on this man to move in by giving him a different garden spot, hog-pen and cowpen as these were still nearer the barn.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

And this morning she was found in the hog-pen, stone dead, and the hogs were devouring the dead body of the child, which was already half ate up!

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

My landlord this day cut down thirty-two young cedars to make a hog-pen.

Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

The old loom stood in the hog-pen chamber, and there Mother wove her linen, her rag carpets, and her woollen goods.

My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922

I remember when a mere lad hearing him pray in the hog-pen.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914