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/ˈpɪɡɪn/ · 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 for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc..
At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.
Use piggin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Piggin means (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 for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc..
Common synonyms include pig, pigg.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.
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