English Dictionary

wangan

名詞

メイン州 アメリカ英語

(US, Maine, lumber trade) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, and so forth. / (US, Maine, lumber trade) Any location or cache of equipment, such as a camp, building, or chest of supplies or tools.

日本語の意味

（US、メイン州、木材貿易用語）補給品や工具などを運搬するための船 / （US、メイン州、木材貿易用語）装備や器具が集まる場所、例えばキャンプ場、建物、備品の貯蔵庫

The lumber crew loaded the wangan with tools and provisions before heading upriver.

材木作業員たちは川を上る前に工具や食料を物資運搬船に積み込んだ。

意味（1）

(US, Maine, lumber trade) A boat for conveying provisions, tools, and so forth.

Wanigan or wangan was the Indian name for boathouse or houseboat, and the wanigans, carrying the cook shacks and supplies, floated down the rivers when the pioneer log drives were underway.

意味（2）

(US, Maine, lumber trade) Any location or cache of equipment, such as a camp, building, or chest of supplies or tools.

I should explain wangan. It is an Indian word, and can mean almost anything, like the Latin res. It can mean a camp or building. Pond-in-the-River wangan—or Pondy wangan, as the drivers call it—is a long, low shack a third of a mile above us, where the Rapid River crew lives during the drive. There is a sign in the bunk-house that reads, Wangan open an hour after supper. That refers to the store where the cook sells candy, tobacco, snuff, and clothing. (It really is a big box in the kitchen ….) The cook may say, I lost my wangan when the work boat swamped, and that means that his dishes are at the bottom of the lake. Or he may complain, The wangan's runnin' low, meaning this time that he's short of food. Or a man may take his wangan and fly—leave the job with his little bundle of personal belongings. You can tell only by the context what the word means, and it's a very convenient word to know."

意味（3）

(US, Maine, lumber trade) The company store debt of a lumberman.

wangans （ plural ）