DCHP-1 Online
puagun [< Algonk.; Ojibwa pwahgan; cf. Cree ospwakun pipe] 
n. a tobacco pipe.
See also: spwagan usp(w)ogan
- 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.
- 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.