wickiup

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Recent Examples of wickiup Part tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun. Popular Science, 28 May 2020 The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation. Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wickiup
Noun
  • Other kinds of algorithms underlie the repeating sequences of bent wood arcs that make up Native American wigwams, canoes and cradles.
    Audrey G. Bennett, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt receives a miniature wigwam at a Boy Scout camp in New York State in 1933.
    NBC news, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • The park also operates several warming huts, which feature restrooms and may even have light snacks.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a million ways to fill time, including paddleboards, kayaks, direct beach access, a tiki hut, and a pool table.
    Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The area had featured multiple shacks built out of wood and tarps.
    Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The original spot, at 2295 Lexington Road and across the street from the fine-dining establishment Le Moo, resembles a hunter’s cabin or funky shack, with a wooden exterior and metal siding, covered in signs for beer brands.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.
    Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The Navajo elder lives in a hogan, a traditional home, built for him by neighbors in Wide Ruins, a remote town of 175 people in northeastern Arizona, about 250 miles from Phoenix.
    Alex Rhoades, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • In contrast with Jokowi, a former carpenter raised in a shanty and Indonesia’s first leader without military or political connections, Prabowo is very much of elite stock.
    Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
  • After a medley of sea shanties and swash-buckling tunes, Zimmer received a standing ovation before heading into intermission.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Well nuclear is back, because AI needs it, not because peasants risk freezing in their hovels.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Many rising comedians live in hovels, but not Zarna Garg, who recently opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their national comedy tour.
    Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Noun
  • Compared to the little sheds that were over there for the last several years, huge improvement.
    John Meyer, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The theater, Gold's Gym and a few shops are housed in a building that was once a shed for clinker, a key cement ingredient, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
    Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The killing is the 72nd homicide investigated by Oakland police this year, and the first since Sept. 28 when a 32-year-old man suffered fatal gunshot wounds at a homeless camp in the 600 block of 29th Street in West Oakland.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The players have to scramble for bamboo tubes hidden all over camp with different amounts of money in them.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024

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“Wickiup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wickiup. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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