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puagun
[< Algonk.; Ojibwa pwahgan; cf. Cree ospwakun pipe]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a tobacco pipe.
Quotations
1860
Nothing appears to contribute so largely to the comfort and enjoyment of Indians . . . as the pwahgan of the Ojibway, the uspwägan of the Cree, or the pipe of the English.
1926
Murchison reddened, glanced at his mother, then took one puff and held out the puagun to its rightful owner.
1938
Then a fighting man brought and filled the great soapstone puagun, the pipe with its yard-long stem and strange, straight bowl, that had been handed down from father to son for more years than even the oldest of them knew.