DCHP-3

star(ch)igan

[origin uncertain; prob. < Algonk.]
Esp. Lab.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a kind of Indian dwelling.

Quotations

1923
. . . the thing that had looked so like a lodge-pole starchigan was nothing more than a tumble of blow-downs carried over the cliff-edge in a snow-slide.