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Biggin  n.  A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Biggin" Quotes from Famous Books



... they're fash't eneugh: A cottar howkin in a sheugh, Wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke, Baring a quarry, an' sic like; Himsel', a wife, he thus sustains, A smytrie o' wee duddie weans, An' nought but his han'-daurk, to keep Them right an' tight in thack ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... grind it every morning. The powder should be placed in the coffee-pot in the proportions of an ounce to less than a pint of water. The water should be poured upon the coffee boiling hot. The coffee should be kept at the boiling point; but should not boil. Coffee made in this way must be made in a biggin. It would not be clear in a ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child



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