wangan

Meaning

Noun

• A boat for conveying provisions, tools, and so forth.
• Any location or cache of equipment, such as a camp, building, or chest of supplies or tools.
• The company store debt of a lumberman.

Origin

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