American English can (noun) tin checkers (game) draughts cow-catcher plough elevator lift ferns bracken hog-pen piggery hood (automobile) bonnet ❋ News From Mad Plato (2006)
It came on me soon aftah I come out of the wah, an 'it growed on me like jim'son weeds in a hog-pen. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)
Dey stacked 'em up out of big logs jus 'lak dey made hog-pen fences. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
Here Johncrow drew the carcass from the hog-pen, and sure enough a shot had cut the poor Purser's head nearly off. ❋ Various (N/A)
Finally I prevailed on this man to move in by giving him a different garden spot, hog-pen and cowpen as these were still nearer the barn. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
And this morning she was found in the hog-pen, stone dead, and the hogs were devouring the dead body of the child, which was already half ate up! ❋ George Thompson (N/A)
My landlord this day cut down thirty-two young cedars to make a hog-pen. ❋ William Priest (N/A)
The old loom stood in the hog-pen chamber, and there Mother wove her linen, her rag carpets, and her woollen goods. ❋ Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 (1922)
I remember when a mere lad hearing him pray in the hog-pen. ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)
Old Olifant had doubtless a right to burn all those brush-piles in the east and south of the Swamp and to clear up the wreck of the old barbed-wire hog-pen just below the spring. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
More than once that hateful fox from Springfield drove them to taking refuge under the wreck of a barbed-wire hog-pen by the spring. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
There were two styles of log architecture; the shanty with corners criss-cross, called hog-pen finish, and the other, the house with the corners neatly finished, called dovetail finish. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
To the surprise of all, one Phil O'Leary, a poor but prolific Dogan, leaped at once from a hog-pen log to a fine brick, and caused no end of perplexity to the ruling society queens, simply paralyzing the social register, since his nine fat daughters now had claims with the best. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
There was no hog-pen nor any place where one might have been, nor did any part of the clearing show any signs indicating a former wallow, nor had any portion of it been rooted up. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
Virginia Deer, (cariacus virginianus) and Black Bear, (ursus americanus,) are the representative big game animals found in North Carolina, and they are both sufficiently abundant to be an object of sport in the localities in which they abound, in fact, in some sections of the State, the bears often become a nuisance to the farmer on account of their depredations on the hog-pen and sheep-fold. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
Charley there, got down the rifle and killed the bear that had climbed into the hog-pen; when they found old Cherry out in the timber with her calf between her legs, and two wolves lying where she had horned them to death -- we return to-night to the high, heroic days of old, when our forefathers conquered the wilderness and our foremothers reared the families that peopled it. ❋ Eugene Wood (1891)
One evening, as he sat on a hog-pen talking to Uncle Daniel, who was a preacher, they began to speak of the wickedness among the young negroes on the plantation. ❋ Unknown (1882)
His deed for the land narrated that the boundary line ran "from an old dry stump, due south, to the southwest corner of his hog-pen, then east by southerly to the top of the hill near a little pond, then north by west to the highway side, and thence along the highway to the old dry stump again aforesaid." ❋ Henry Peterson (1882)
Does not use hog-pen or cattle manure on tobacco; has tendency to make tobacco brittle and tender; will "scald" more easily, owing to large quantity of sap produced; leaves break off more easily when handling; thinks hog-pen manure better for melons; uses on plant beds if free of cobs. ❋ J. B. Hunter (1880)
