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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Pig

Pig, n.

noun

n. [D. big, bigge, L. Ger. bigge. Cf. A.-S. pige, Dan. pige, Sw. piga, Icel. pika, a maid, girl.]

Sense 1. The young of swine, male or female.

Sense 2. An oblong mass of cast iron or other metal, as first extracted from the ore, and weighing from fifty to two hundred and fifty pounds.

Sense 3. An earthen vessel. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Pig of lead, the eighth of a fother, or 250 pounds.

Pīg, v. t. or i.

verbtransitiveintransitive

v. t. or i. [imp. & p. p. PIGGED; p. pr. & vb. n. PIGGING.]

  1. To bring forth pigs; to bring forth as, or in the manner of, pigs.
  2. To lie together like pigs.

They found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. Burke.