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rogan Canad.|ˈrəʊgən|
Also 8 roggan, 9 roggin.
[ad. Canad. Fr. (h)ouragan, f. Algonquian (see W. S. Avis Dict. Canadianisms).]
A water-tight container made of birch-bark.
1743J. Isham in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1949) XII. 188 A Roggan. Slawee. 1791P. Fidler Jrnl. 10 Nov. in Publ. Champlain Soc. (1934) XXI. 523 We are obliged to roast all & make water by immersing red hot stones into a roggan of Snow. 1820J. Clouston Jrnl. 10 July in K. G. Davies Northern Quebec & Labrador Jrnls. & Corr. 1819–35 (1963) 57 He had a wooden roggin which would hold about five gallons. 1894Outing Nov. 127/1, I saw..the ‘rogans’, or water-tight vessels of birch-bark, beautifully stitched with roots, and trimmed around the opening with colored porcupine-quills. 1922Beaver June 7/1 Ornamented work baskets, plain baskets or ‘rogans’, for holding fish, game, berries, or canoe pitch are also made of the bark. 1968E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent i. i. 1 These hunters heat stones in their open fires; and drop them into birch bark rogans filled with water and meat—until the water boils and cooks the meat. |