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wanigan N. Amer.|ˈwænɪgən|
Also wammikin, wangan, wangun, wannegan, wannigan, wongen.
[Shortened from Montagnais Indian atawangan, f. atawan to buy or sell. Cf. Cree and Odjibwa atawâgan, ‘ce dont on se sert pour acheter ou pour vendre’ (Lacombe).]
1. A receptacle for small supplies or a reserve stock; esp., a boat or a chest containing outfit supplies for a lumber camp.
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer., Wangan. (Indian.) In Maine, a boat for carrying provisions. 1854Americans at Home (ed. Haliburton) III. 254 The boats appropriated for the removal of the whole company, apparatus, and provisions [of river-drivers], when loaded, are called ‘wanguns’, an Indian word... Among the dangers to be incurred..is that of ‘running the wangun’..which..means the act of taking these loaded bateaux down river from station to station. 1860Harper's Mag. XX. 451 Behind each regiment of logs follows the wangan—a small boat or barge with a canvass awning stretched over it, and the cook and supplies. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 132 We..took possession of a deserted wongen, in which to cook and eat our dinner. 1878Scribner's Mag. XV. 150 The drive is accompanied by what is called a wammikin, consisting of a raft of square timber or long logs on which is built a comfortable shanty. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail 323 Outside the cook and cookee were stowing articles in the already loaded wanigan. 1911― Rules of Game i. xiii. [Log-driving.] Ordinarily on drive we have a wanigan... A wanigan's a big scow. It carries the camp and supplies to follow the drive. 1945F. J. Fugina Lore & Lure of Upper Mississippi 221 Wanigans were small flatboats, built of natural crook knees and planked lengthwise. 1957Bush News (Port Arthur, Ontario) 1 June 1/1 Three wanegans, a floating mess hall and cook shack, and six drive camps are maintained to keep the wood moving.
b. Stores, provisions.
1907Scribner's Mag. Jan. 2/1 Now load up with the bundles and boxes, the tent,..the provisions—all that stuff that is known as ‘duffel’ in New York, and ‘butins’ in French Canada and ‘wangan’ in Maine.
c. attrib.
1907Black Cat June 19 An ancient Wangan-chest, relic of his father's river-days. 1908S. E. White River Man xv. 131 The ground had now hardened so that a wanigan boat was unnecessary. Instead, the camp outfit was transported in wagons.
2. A cabin, usu. wooden, mounted on runners; = caboose 3 b.
1949in Dict. Canadianisms (1967) 834/1 The Wannegan has a sled mounted house type body made of light gauge metal, and heavily insulated for use in sub zero temperatures. 1949Survey June 303/2 The industry is based no longer in isolated logging camps, with lonely men living in ‘wannigans’ dragged through the forests on sled-like runners. 1958L. Crisler Arctic Wild 133 At Barrow, Cris chained the wolves in front of our wanigan, one of a row of four or five empty wanigans beside the airstrip. They had made up a cat train. A wanigan is a narrow shack on runners: it can be drawn by tractor across snow or tundra. 1966Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 20 Feb. 7/3 While sleeping in a wanigan, a hut on sleds, I was awakened..by native children shouting. 1979C. Kilian Icequake xii. 211 We'll have to build some wanigans that'll fit on the sledges. Otherwise we'll never be able to shelter everybody. |