Wigwam

Quick meaning: Wigwam is a noun meaning A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.

Meaning

A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.

More Meanings

1. (possibly dated) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
2. (transitive) To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam.

Example Sentences

The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock. It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.

Their houſes or wigwams, which they call carbets, are built as I have already deſcribed thoſe of the negroes; but inſtead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called tas, which grow in cluſters in all marſhy places: [...]

Word Forms

• wigwams
• wigwamming
• wigwammed

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