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abuckwan
[< Algonk.: Cree]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a skin or canvas sheet used as a shelter.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1902
In this case he uses the abuckwan--canvas--for a shed tent, with one side sloping to the ground, banked by brush and snow, the other facing the fire, both tent and fire on such a slope that the smoke drifts out while the heat reflects in.
1913
I'd rather battle with winter's cold under an abuckwan, and running my line of traps, than live in the finest house in Winnipeg.