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wanigan
[won-i-guhn]
noun
a lumberjack's trunk.
a lumber camp's supply chest.
a small house on wheels or tractor treads, used as an office or shelter in temporary lumber camps.
(especially in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest) a lean-to or other small addition built onto a house trailer, cabin, etc.
wanigan
/ ˈɒɪə /
noun
a lumberjack's chest or box
a cabin, caboose or houseboat
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wanigan1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wanigan1
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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