Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Pightel or Pigh’tle.

 Piggy-wiggy or Piggy-whidden.Pigmy. 
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Pightel or Pigh’tle.
 
A small parcel of land enclosed with a hedge. In the eastern counties called a pi’kle.   1
        “Never had that novelty in manure whitened the … pightels of Court Farm.”—Miss Mitford: Our Village, p. 68.
 


 Piggy-wiggy or Piggy-whidden.Pigmy. 

 
Loading
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Shakespeare · Bible · Saints · Anatomy · Harvard Classics · Lit. History · Quotations · Poetry
© 1993–2013 Bartleby.com · [Top 150]