Definition of "wangun" []

• A place for keeping small supplies or a reserve stock; especially, the chest in a lumber-camp containing clothing, shoes, tobacco, etc., which are sold to the men. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""No. The old man took the stranger into the wangun camp, where it was private, and they talked."
• ""Oh, well, at last we heard the old man howlin 'and yowlin' in the wangun camp and then he comes a-pushing the tall stranger out with such awful language as you know he can."