wanigan
/ˈwɑnɪɡən/
noun
- A small chest or box used to store food, tools, or personal items, especially by loggers, campers, or travelers.
- The logger packed his wanigan with canned beans and a spare axe.
- She opened her wanigan to find a map and some dried fruit inside.
- We carried a wooden wanigan full of cooking supplies on our canoe trip.
- A small house or shelter on wheels or skids, used by loggers as a mobile camp or kitchen.
- After a long day of cutting trees, they slept in the wanigan.
- The crew ate dinner in the wanigan parked near the river.
- The old wanigan had a stove and bunks for six people.