wickiup

American  

[wik-ee-uhp] / ˈwɪk iˌʌp /

Or wickyup,

noun

1. (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.

2. Western U.S. any rude hut.

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wickiup British  

/ ˈwɪkɪˌʌp /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of wickiup

1850–55, earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of the Upper Great Lakes Indians < Fox wi·kiya·pi house < Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi; wigwam

Example Sentences

Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.

From Time Magazine Archive

Water Flows Fast marched up to a wickiup near the center of the camp.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

He never let people forget that he was the son of the great war chief Black Hawk, whose wickiup lay only a short distance from his own.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

She found that the open area before the wickiup was crowded, and she could not get close.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert