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  • noun bedroll

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Examples

  • She covered his face with a corner of the "soogan" and glanced around.

    The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Knowing the night might be short and the following day long, most of the trailhands were stretched out on the ground, a “soogan”—quilt—cushioning its hardness.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • Knowing the night might be short and the following day long, most of the trailhands were stretched out on the ground, a “soogan”—quilt—cushioning its hardness.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • Fumbling under his pillow, he produced the stub of a pencil and a tablet, after which, crosslegged on his blankets and soogan, he pored over the catalogue.

    The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • He could see himself loading his belongings into Slim's old boat, his blankets and the tattered soogan and bobbing through the rapids with the blackened coffee-pot, the frying pan, and lard cans jingling in the bottom, while Sprudell, with his hateful, womanish smile, watched his ignominious departure.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • A dead baby lay on a ragged soogan near a partially dug grave.

    The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Christmas morning as he lay in a knot under the soogan, listening to the wind twanging the stove-pipe wire and contemplating his present and future.

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • A single iron bedstead extended into the room and a soogan and two blankets, thin and ragged from service, were heaped in the middle.

    The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • After considering his dinner menu for a time, Wallie drew his knees to his chin, which enabled him to his get entire body under the soogan, and contrasted his present surroundings with those of the previous

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • "Pa" Snow spent more of his time downstairs now in a rocking chair upholstered with a soogan, where he could vent his bitterness at short range.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

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