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Wikiup
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Wikiup, n. [Of North American Indian origin; cf. Dakota wakeya, wokeya.].
The hut used by the nomadic Indian tribes of the arid regions of the west and southwest United States, typically elliptical in form, with a rough frame covered with reed mats or grass or brushwood. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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