单词 | tupik |
释义 | tupikn. A hut or tent of skins used by Eskimo as a summer residence.See note at Eskimo n. 1. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > other types of tent tenticle1548 pal1656 marquee1690 gourbi1738 marquise1749 yurt1780 bell-tent1785 kibitka1799 shuldari1808 fly-tent1816 Swiss cottage1820 skin house1826 big tent1843 ridge tent1846 brush tent1862 dog tent1862 shelter tent1862 wall-tent1862 wedge tent1862 pup tent1863 A tent1863 tupik1864 tentlet1879 choom1889 pyramid1889 tortoise tent1890 safari tent1926 tent-sack1940 tent-trailer1963 tepee1970 trailer tent1971 Whillans box1971 1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. ix. 176 On my way,..just outside the angeko's tupic, I noticed an oar of a kia[k] stuck upright in a drift of frozen snow. 1878 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gaz. (ed. 4) 700 Toupik, an Esquimaux summer lodge of poles covered with seal~skins. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 152 One of their hunters came across a tupik, a skin-tent. 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. Nov. 499 These people [sc. Eskimo], who live in tupiks (tents or huts of skin) in summer, and in igloos, partly excavated, partly stone-built dwellings, in winter. 1900 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 297/2 There were three or four tupiks, or sealskin tents, pitched upon the turf at the foot of the talus. 1920 W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor vi. 129 Wooden huts had largely replaced the former ‘tubiks’, or skin tents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1864 |
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