soogan

Etymology

From Scots suggan (“light saddle; bedroll”), from Irish súgán (“rope”), from Proto-Celtic *souggo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”), see also Sanskrit सुवति (suvati). Doublet of sugan (“chair”).

noun

  1. A bedroll.“Rawlins was trying to get his soogan tied on behind the saddle.”