different between biggins vs bigging

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biggins

biggins

From big +? -ing.

bigging

bigging (plural biggings)

(obsolete) A home. [13th-18th c.]
(Scotland, Northern England) A building, especially an outbuilding. [from 14th c.]
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 18:
  The back door, that behind the pulpit, led out across the kirkyard to the Manse and its biggings, set up in the time of the Old Queen […]
Alternative form of biggin (coffee pot with strainer)

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