Lexicographical Neighbors of Leglins
Literary usage of Leglins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... leglins, pitchers, pails, and water stoups ; having the satisfaction, in a
short time, to observe every thing getting as black as the crown of my hat, ..."
2. Tales and Sketches by James Hogg (1837)
"There will be setting on of leglins, and happing wi' plaids, and song-singing,
and whispering when Katie Cheyne's out o* sight. But whenever you see ripe ..."
3. The Life of Sir David Wilkie: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks by Allan Cunningham, Peter Cunningham (1843)
"... now Mrs. John Gibson Lock- hart; and 6. her younger sister, Miss Ann Scott.
Both are represented as ewe-milkers, with their leglins, or milk-pails. 7. ..."
4. The Bride of Lammermoor: And, A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott (1878)
"Finele, the Lady of the Castle, came forth to see her maidens pass to the herds
with their leglins.t There sat an orphan maiden beneath the old oak-tree of ..."
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