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Pail vs Piggin - What's the difference?

pail | piggin |

As nouns the difference between pail and piggin

is that pail is a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc, usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) while piggin is (dialect) 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.

pail

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover) .
  • The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.
  • (In technical use) A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
  • Synonyms

    * bucket

    Anagrams

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    piggin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect) 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.
  • * 1899 , .
  • At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.

    Synonyms

    * pig, pigg