Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A boat (especially a house-boat) used chiefly by lumbermen for carrying provisions, tools, etc. [Maine.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US, Maine A boat for conveying provisions, tools, asf.

Etymologies

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From Abenaki waniigan ("pit trap, container for sundries"); liken klahigan ("wooden trap"), Ojibwe waanikaan ("pit, excavated hole").

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Examples

  • That in this age of law and order Gideon Ward meditated any actual violence to his person Parker found it hard to believe as he sat there in the "wangan" and pondered on his situation.

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • The iPhone 3G S went on sale Friday in the U.S. and Ford GT battle it out on this interstate in a "wangan" style high speed

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  • A perfect combination of baingan bharta and the Kashmiri buz-wangan raita of roasted eggplant.

    Eggplant dip and Red Bean dip - Party starters 2007

  • And shifted all our wangan up to McIneriney's camp.

    The Winter of Seventy-Three 1923

  • There were wooden bars on the windows outside and within, rude protection against thieves who might want to ransack the stock of the wangan store.

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • The woods name for this store is the "wangan camp."

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • You men have nothin 'to do with that chap in that wangan and you'll keep away from him or get your heads broken open.

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • He heard Colonel Ward bellow at some one who was evidently advancing toward the wangan.

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • And when all were gone, there was as yet only the faintest glimmering of the dawn against the window of the wangan camp.

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

  • Colonel Gid -- and the great human Bengal -- meanin 'him as is in the wangan -- get together in this clearin', I think I'd rather see it from up

    The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

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