2. n. a session of heavy drinking that accompanied the trading activities when Indians or others visited a post.

3. n. See quotes.

2. n. a belt of wampum (def. 1), often worked in significant designs, used by Indians as a reminder of a treaty or agreement, etc.

2. n. a piece of timber so processed.

2. n. running the wangan See quote.

2. n. See quote.

3. n. a store operated by a logging company; commissary.

4. n. See quote.

5. n. a scow or raft equipped to accommodate loggers while engaged in a drive (def. lb).

6. n. a type of dwelling on runners having some of the functions of a modern house-trailer.

7. n. a bunkhouse and cook-house on bobs, or runners, serving the needs of the crew on a cat-train or other group of vehicles. Also spelled wanegan, wangan, wannegan, wannigan, etc.

8. n. a warm, short laced boot.

2. a large canoe used in races.

2. a war chief and his warriors, who held authority in a tribe during war.

2. n. Figurative use.

2. n. in the Red River Settlement, an official having charge of the keeping of law and order on the plains, as during the buffalo hunts.

3. n. in Ontario, the chairman of the county council, himself a township reeve, selected for the chair by his fellow reeves on the council.

4. n. a government officer responsible for seeing that game laws are observed; a game warden.

5. n. someone employed to keep poachers from fishing in leased waters.

6. n. at certain Canadian universities, a faculty member in charge of a students' residence, students' union, etc.

2. n. on the warpath. of Indians, on an expedition of war.

3. n. on the warpath. Figurative uses.

4. n. take the warpath, Figurative use.

2. a war chief and his warriors, who held authority in a tribe during war.

2. n. an underwater exit from a beaver lodge.

3. n. the beaver lodge itself, including the escape routes.

4. n. the living quarters of a muskrat, built on islands in and around a muskrat swamp.

5. n. a bear's den.

2. v. mine by the placer method.

2. n. the quantity of gold obtained by this process.

2. n. the hide of the wapiti.

2. the right to hold and make use of such a site.

3. the right to set up a dam to provide water for a sluice.

2. n. an opening in the ice, made as a breathing-hole, q.v., by some animal.

2. n. a pile of newly washed fish. Cp. bulk.

2. n. usually weetigo, a man turned cannibal and believed possessed by an evil spirit.

2. n. the valuable pelt of this animal.

2. n. usually wendigo, a man turned cannibal and believed possessed by an evil spirit.

3. n. usually wendigo, turn wendigo, become a maneater.

4. n.

5. n.

2. a size of stave measuring 3 1/2' long by 4" broad and 4" thick.

2. n. the western part of Canada, generally that part west of the Great Lakes.

2. Manitoba.

3. the provinces of Canada west of Ontario, especially Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

2. n. a type of freighter used for carrying grain or ore on the Great Lakes, having a cigar-shaped hull and low, convex deck.

2. n. the total annual amount of wheat handled by such a co-operative.

2. n. a member or supporter of the Liberals; a Grit.

2. n. a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.

2. n. a small mammal of the genus Ochotona, found in the western mountain region.

3. n. a wild swan, Olor columbianus, which breeds in northern Canada and Alaska.

4. n. See quote.

5. n. See quote.

2. adj. decent, fair; honest.

3. adj. pertaining to English-speaking persons.

2. adv. in speak or talk white, like an English-speaking Canadian.

2. n. a widely distributed North American food fish, Coregonus sp., especially C. clupeaformis.

3. n. a mature Chinook salmon.

2. a light-gray color phase of the grizzly bear.

3. the white or creamy-white color phase of the Kermode bear.

2. the heavy, straight-grained wood of this tree.

3. a small species of birch, Betula populifolia, native to the Maritimes, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.

2. a widely distributed ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus albus.

2. the white sheep, Ovis dalli, of the mountains of the Northwest.

2. the commercially valuable fur of this fox.

2. n. a man of honest, loyal behavior; a good man.

3. n. a white, English-speaking Canadian, especially as opposed to an immigrant from central Europe, the Orient, etc.

2. the silver maple, Acer saccharinum.

2. the light, soft wood of this tree.

3. a slim, straight pine, Pinus contorta var. latifolia, common in the Rocky Mountain region, so called because the young trees make good lodgepoles.

4. the western white pine, especially with reference to its wood.

2. the white sheep, Ovis dalli, of the mountains of the Northwest.

2. n. See quote.

2. a man who takes part in the process of floating or driving logs.

2. n. the lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys.

2. n. the North American lime or linden tree, Tilia americana.

3. n. See quote.

2. n. drill widow-maker. See quote.

2. n. a conical tent in which poles spread at the ground and joined at the top are covered with buffalo hide (originally), canvas, etc., used primarily by the Plains Indians.

3. n. a tent of skins, used as a summer dwelling.

4. n. a temporary dwelling built by white men in the bush.

5. n.

2. the flesh of the lynx used as food.

3. the fur of the lynx.

2. See 1925 quote.

2. a goatlike mammal, Oreamnos montanus, found in the western mountains and related to the European chamois.

2. either of two small evergreen shrubs, Mahonia agnifolium or M. nervosa; Oregon grape.

2. the poisonous water hemlock, Cicuta maculata.

2. See quote.

2. See prairie turnip 1892 quote

2. a partridge-like game bird, Bonasa umbellus, occurring in many subspecies across Canada.

3. See quote.

2. a partridge-like game bird, Bonasa umbellus, occurring in many subspecies across Canada.

2. n. a row or clump of trees serving as protection against the wind and, often, as a means of preventing soil erosion.

2. n. such trees collectively.

3. n. a tract of land strewn with trees toppled by the wind.

2. n. in hockey and lacrosse, either of the two players on the left and right of the centre man of a forward line.

3. n. See quote.

2. See quote.

2. a secondary road used only when the ground is frozen, usually because the terrain is impassable at other times, formerly used by sleighs.

3. a road swamped (def. 1) through the bush and used for hauling logs during the winter months.

4. a route following the course of a frozen river.

2. n. a seasoned fur trader or voyageur who spent his winters in the fur country.

3. n. a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.

4. n. a comparable officer in the Hudson's Bay Company.

5. n. See quote.

6. n. See quotes.

2. the region where the winter hunt is carried on.

2. a comparable officer in the Hudson's Bay Company. See 1905 quote.

2. n. an instance of such killing.

2. n. the valued fur of this animal.

3. n. the flesh of the wolverine used as food.

4. n. in figurative uses, with reference to persons having crafty, destructive, or gluttonous characteristics.

2. a rat of the genus Neotoma whose habitat is the bush, as the bushy-tailed wood rat.

2. a large, usually gray, wolf, Canis lupus occidentalis, found in the northern forest.

2. n. an unlicensed trader who ranged the forest in search of furs.

2. n. a relatively small holding of forested land which is used as a source of wood for commercial purposes.

2. n. a person who frequents and is familiar with the bush, as a trapper, prospector, or trader.

2. v. See quote.

2. n. a cowboy.

2. n. See meaning 1.