wikiup

[ wik-ee-uhp ]

noun

1. a variant of wickiup.

wikiup

/ ˈwɪkɪˌʌp /

noun

1. a variant spelling of wickiup

Example Sentences

It’s a place where the “landscape records their ancestors’ migration routes, ancient roads, great houses, villages, granaries, hogans, wikiups, sweat lodges, corrals, petroglyphs and pictographs, tipi rings, shade houses, and burial grounds.”

From Salon

He came here, as I came, to look at our little wikiup.

From Project Gutenberg

Stooping he examined it closely and found to his surprise that it was the opening of a shelter tent or wikiup.

From Project Gutenberg

They were all huddled about a tiny fire; scattered about were their wikiups made of sticks and pine boughs.

From Project Gutenberg

I had seventy-five hundred, all in the long green, in that dinky satchel of mine, when I came to this wikiup to join Wynn and Hogan.

From Project Gutenberg

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