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abuckwan [< Algonk.: Cree] 
n. a skin or canvas sheet used as a shelter.
- c1902 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.
- c1902 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.