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wickiup
or ɾ··ܱ, ɾ··ܱ
[ wik-ee-uhp ]
noun
- (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
- Western U.S. any rude hut.
wickiup
/ ˈɪɪˌʌ /
noun
- a crude shelter made of brushwood, mats, or grass and having an oval frame, esp of a kind used by nomadic Indians now in Oklahoma and neighbouring states of the US
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wickiup1
C19: from Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo wikiyap; compare wigwam
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Then she tried to disguise the shelter by erecting a palm-frond wickiup on the roof.
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There you will see the rows of wickiups," said the Basket Woman, "with the doors all opening eastward to the sun.
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Laying aside his pipe, he spread his blankets in the wickiup, and then walked quietly toward the quaking aspen.
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One moment the Apaches were squatting among their lodges; and in the next moment people and goods and wickiups were gone; the place was bare.
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Her teeth and eyes gleamed in the faint light within the wickiup.
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