wangan

Noun

wangan (plural wangans)

1. (Maine, US, 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.1942 August, “They Play Jackstraws with Trees”, in Popular Mechanics, page 88
2. (Maine, US, 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....1942, Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods, JB Lippincott Co, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 183–184
3. (Maine, US, lumber trade) The company store debt of a lumberman.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Wangan

Wangan

1. 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 1971.1973, China Yearbook 1972-1973, Taipei: China Publishing Co., page 124
   • The centre, about 1km north of Wangan's ferry pier, works to educate visitors about Penghu’s turtle population; it also provides information about other attractions around Wangan Township (www.wangan.gov.tw).2010, Steven Crook, Taiwan: The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 303–304
2. 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.1982 May 9, “Penghu: Old and new in charming blend”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 18, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2
   • He distinguishes three main domains in the Penghu archipelago(Fig. 2): (1) in the main northern islands and in central Wangan (Pachao) island, alkali basalts and tholeiites alternate, (2) to the northeast, within a NW-SE trending zone, the alkali basalts contain numerous ultramafic nodules and (3)...1990, Jacques Angelier, Françoise Bergerat, Hao Tsu Chu, Wen Shing Juang, Chia Yu Lu, “Paleostress analysis as a key to margin extension: The Penghu Islands, South China Sea”, in Tectonophysics...

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Wangan

IPA/ˈwɒŋən/

Wangan

1. An Aboriginal Australian people of the Isaac Region of Central Queensland.