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I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.

The two other Maori, both younger men, have begun bailing water out of the boat with the piggin.

"State yer piece, you sniveling piggin of fish bait."

"Piggin, firkin, or by the whole barrel, whichever vessel gives your heart pleasure."

After that I picked them up, tied them together with a piggin string, and slung them around my neck.

Let it be a piggin apiece, since it's my intent to have them wakeful to sail on the ebb tide at midnight."

Pig and Whistle: a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon saying piggin wassail meaning "good health".

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.

Stuart Piggin (1988) explores the development and tenacity of the evangelical movement in Australia, and its impact on Australian society.

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.

Always, on the range, I carried with me a bundle of rawhide strips, most of them "piggin strings" for tying the legs of cattle when branding.

Stuart Piggin notes that Lee "exuberantly led the resurgence of Reformed theology among Queensland Presbyterians."

Cragin made a specialty type measure called a "piggin", which was a small wooden pail with a handle formed by continuing one of the staves above the rim.

Personally speaking this is like watching a movie by the late Leslie Nielsen, a total piggin disaster, unfortunatley we can't put our coats on and toddle off home chuckling.

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Richard Piggin, the deputy chief executive of the children's charity Beatbullying, said: "Users should not have the option of remaining anonymous on sites such as Formspring and other social networking platforms.

After tying my horse to a shrub, I rigged a quick sling for my rifle from a couple of piggin strings and then reaching up, I caught the lowest limb of the big tree.

Stuart Piggin suggests that they combine "remnant" and "revival" mentalities, and that occasional visitors to their meetings "have been impressed by the Christian calibre of those who attended and could not fault the Scriptural teaching."

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 horse is trained to slow once the rider is completely off the horse and has reached the steer, but to keep the rope taunt while the contestant ties three of the steer's legs together with a piggin string using a half hitch knot colloquially called a hooey.

I was too weak to travel, but though he rode on the next day, I began slowly to remember who I was, and they gave me a gown and let me sit to table to eat with my knife instead of throwing me scraps in a wooden piggin-" His laugh was shaky, nervous.