0 a type of temporary home traditionally made by Native Americans in the southwestern US, which has an oval wood frame covered with grass, leaves, branches, animal skins, or cloth:
One of the traditional dwellings of Apaches is the wickiup, which is a dwelling that can be made almost anywhere.
He chose to build the wickiup, a traditional wood-framed structure used by American Indians for shelter and ceremonial purposes.
I decided to turn the debris into a wickiup, a stick-frame shelter that looks like an upside-down bowl.
We come to a tiny canvas wickiup, a dozen feet across and five feet high at the top of the dome.
The dome-shaped wickiups where the villagers lived were softly beautiful in the early morning light.
He turned his back on the burning wickiups.
Only the sounder clicking iron jargon and the thunder shaking the wickiup like a reed filled the ears of the men about him.
In twenty minutes twenty men were running as many ways through the storm, and a live engine boomed under the wickiup window.
Even now she prepares herself in the wickiup.
