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wanigan
[ won-i-guhn ]
noun
- a lumberjack's trunk.
- a lumber camp's supply chest.
- a small house on wheels or tractor treads, used as an office or shelter in temporary lumber camps.
- (especially in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest) a lean-to or other small addition built onto a house trailer, cabin, etc.
wanigan
/ ˈɒɪə /
noun
- a lumberjack's chest or box
- a cabin, caboose or houseboat
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of wanigan1
First recorded in 1840–50; from Ojibwe ɲ·Ծ첹· “pit,” derivative of ɲ·Ծ·- “to dig a hole in the ground” from unattested Proto-Algonquian ɲ·θ·- (unattested ɲ·θ- “hole” + -·- “m”)
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of wanigan1
C19: from Algonquian
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And that wanigan wooden box he kept opening for supplies?
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Come all you friends of the Red Gods and I will tell you a wonderful tale Of the time when all men were he-men who followed the Wanigan trail.
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"Ordinarily on drive we have a wanigan," said Welton.
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When night came the men rode down stream to where the wanigan had made camp.
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Billy Camp began to worry about shooting the wanigan through the sluice-way.
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