DCHP-3

meetchwop

[< Algonk.]
Lab.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a shelter, as a shack, hut, tent-frame, or wigwam.

See: tilt(def. 1),wickiup

Quotations

1933
We stuffed up the holes with our coats and caps and mitts and the little meetchwop began to get hot.
1936
Along with the uncovered framework . . . made of well-bleached whale ribs, and a couple of meetchwops, they tended to give a graveyard melancholy to the straggling village-end.