Wigan
- n. A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women’s dresses, etc.; — so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.