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Damned (used as a mild intensive). examples
present participle and gerund of pig examples
plural piggings
(engineering) The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline. quotations examples
The main reason for the high efficiencies obtained over previous piggings can be attributed to the vented swabs with the check valve.
1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings, volume 37, page 1083
Alternative form of piggin quotations examples
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia