wangan means A boat for conveying provisions, tools, and so forth. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
wangan is pronounced /(ˈ)wɑŋˈæn/.
Etymology
From Abenaki waniigan (“pit trap, container for sundries”); liken klahigan (“wooden trap”), Ojibwe waanikaan (“pit, excavated hole”).
noun
- 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.”
- 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 sto”
- The company store debt of a lumberman.
name
- A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan.“Living conditions on outer islands are being improved. Trans-short wave telephones were installed in Wangan and Chimei villages in August, 1971. The villages also received electric lights in 1971.”
- An island of Wangan, Penghu County, Taiwan.“Small airports have also jbeen^([sic – meaning been]) built on Chimei and Wangan islands to handle services by light aircraft.”
- An Aboriginal Australian people of the Isaac Region of Central Queensland.