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wanigan

[ won-i-guhn ]

noun

  1. a lumberjack's trunk.
  2. a lumber camp's supply chest.
  3. a small house on wheels or tractor treads, used as an office or shelter in temporary lumber camps.
  4. (especially in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest) a lean-to or other small addition built onto a house trailer, cabin, etc.


wanigan

/ ˈwɒnɪgən /

noun

  1. a lumberjack's chest or box
  2. a cabin, caboose or houseboat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wanigan1

First recorded in 1840–50; from Ojibwe wa·nikka·n “pit,” derivative of wa·nikke·- “to dig a hole in the ground” from unattested Proto-Algonquian wa·θehke·- (unattested wa·θ- “hole” + -ehke·- “make”)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wanigan1

C19: from Algonquian
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Example Sentences

And that wanigan wooden box he kept opening for supplies?

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.

"Ordinarily on drive we have a wanigan," said Welton.

When night came the men rode down stream to where the wanigan had made camp.

Billy Camp began to worry about shooting the wanigan through the sluice-way.

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