piggins

Every afternoon a long line of children might have been seen with "piggins" on their heads, taking in the supply for the night.

Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography 1929

We milked sixty cows on the plantation, and all the milk which had been set and skimmed was given to the negroes who came to the dairy to carry it to their homes in great tubs, and the little ones trotted along carrying their "piggins," which was the name for their small wooden buckets.

Old plantation days : being recollections of southern life before the Civil War, Nancy Bostick 1909

There were a few benches and a rude rocker, all of home manufacture; shelves in the corner, containing neatly scrubbed pails and "piggins," made by the plantation coopers of alternate strips of redolent white cypress and fragrant red cedar, bright tins and white and colored plates, with the never absent long-necked gourd dipper, and beneath them the ovens, pots and skillets, the simple but most efficient paraphernalia of the mother cook.

Plantation life before emancipation, 1892

Mammy picked it up wherever she found it, beat it fine and used it on everything -- shelves, floors, hollow-ware, milk pans, piggins, cedar water buckets -- it made their brass hoops shine like gold.

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

He had his tea and hot rolls in the morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of penny loaf -- our 'crug' moistened with attenuated small beer in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

I was fond of visiting Jim's shop and ordering all sorts of wooden ware, pails, piggins, trays, etc.

Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux

You ought to have seen the little ones dance as the mothers came home with their piggins full.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

Water wuz toted from de spring an 'kept in piggins.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

There on the shelf were the cedar piggins, scoured clean with white sand from the creek, one for spice, one for rendering, one for sweeting.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

I broke quite a few piggins before I learned the art.

Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray 1924