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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See wickiup.

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Examples

  • Tim, who had unslung his rope, aimin 'to help the hosses out of the chuckhole, snatched her off the horn, and with one of the prettiest twenty-foot flip throws I ever see done he snaked old Texas Pete right out of his wicky-up, gun and all.

    Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Having no tents, Jack and I slept on the ground rolled up in Holland blankets, and sheltered in part by a wicky-up, which the men contrived cleverly enough.

    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

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