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wickiup†
< Algonk.; cf. Sauk wikiyap; cp. Cree weke lodge
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n.
a rude shelter, as a lean-to; originally a brush or mat-covered shelter among certain Algonkian Indians.
Quotations
1897
Wickiup, now a common name throughout the West, of any rude temporary shelter like a hut or hovel, is said to be from an Algonquian word rendered mikiouaps [error for wikiouaps], meaning a conical leather lodge, wigwam, or tepee.
1912
I have not always lived so. Time was when I had my own wickiup, when I lay by my own night-fire and played with the braids of a woman's hair.
1920
. . . . I'd gone kiting off to prairie-ranch and a wickiup with a leaky roof."
1923
"This really won't do," he chided himself as he strode back in the frigid moonlight to his primitive wickiup.
1961
Don has already told his boys . . . how to build a brush "wickiup" shelter, and even . . . how to make fire without a match.