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

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

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

She and Redbird's sisters were already bedded down for the night on buffalo-robe pallets along the wall of the wickiup.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

She could see her family's wickiup, but Owl Carver was no longer standing outside watching.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

At last the Coyote-Spirit grew so bold that when there was no one passing on the trail he would go and walk up and down in front of the wickiup.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter