单词 | rogan |
释义 | rogann. Canadian. Now chiefly historical. A watertight container made of birch bark. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > birch bark rogan1743 coolamon1846 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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