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pyne pig Sc.
[First element uncertain (? the same as in prec.); the second is pig n.2]
A pot or an earthenware vessel (or sometimes one of tin or other material) for the keeping of money; a savings box. (Cf. penny-pig s.v. penny n. 12.)
1488[see pig n.2]. 1825Jamieson, Pyne Pig, a vessel used for keeping money. 1881J. Longmuir in Mod. Scot. Poets II. 45 [Why] keep your Savings' pyne-pig toom o' white or yellow? |