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单词 rogan
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rogann.

Brit. /ˈrɒɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈrɑɡən/, Canadian English /ˈrɒɡən/
Forms: 1700s roggan, 1700s–1800s roggin, 1800s– rogan.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ouragan.
Etymology: < French ouragan (1685 or earlier), either < Old Algonquin ȣragan (pronounced /oraːkan/; 17th cent.; compare Algonquin onàgan) or < Old Montagnais ȣragan (pronounced /oraːkan/; 17th cent.; compare Montagnais ulagan, unàkan), or partly < each of them. N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (rōu·găn) /ˈrəʊɡən/.
Canadian. Now chiefly historical.
A watertight container made of birch bark.
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1743 J. Isham Observ. Hudsons Bay (1949) 188 A Roggan. Slawee.
1791 P. Fidler Jrnl. 10 Nov. in Publ. Champlain Soc. (1934) XXI. 523 We are obliged to roast all & make water by immersing red hot stones into a roggan of Snow.
1820 J. Clouston Jrnl. 10 July in K. G. Davies Northern Quebec & Labrador Jrnls. & Corr. 1819–35 (1963) 57 He had a wooden roggin which would hold about five gallons.
1894 Outing Nov. 127/1 I saw..the ‘rogans’, or water-tight vessels of birch-bark, beautifully stitched with roots, and trimmed around the opening with colored porcupine-quills.
1922 Beaver June 7/1 Ornamented work baskets, plain baskets or ‘rogans’, for holding fish, game, berries, or canoe pitch are also made of the bark.
1968 E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent i. i. 1 These hunters heat stones in their open fires; and drop them into birch bark rogans filled with water and meat—until the water boils and cooks the meat.
2006 Manitoba Hist. (Nexis) 1 Feb. 2(6) The finished salt was packed in 100-bushel birch bark rogans and transported by York boat to Oak Point on Lake Manitoba.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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