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boucan
[< Cdn F boucan place or device for smoking meat]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:bocanne, bocane
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n.
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Quotations
1888
They passed the boucannes, burning seams of lignite.
1894
About ten miles above Fort Norman [N.W.T.] we landed for wood, at the "bocanes."
1909
We came in view of the "boucans" or beds of lignite coal which have been continuously burning here since Mackenzie saw them in 1789 and mistook their smoke for tepee fires.