kiva
/ˈkiːvə
/noun
A chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.Tensions worsened when Spanish soldiers under Governor Juan Francisco Trevino sacked the Pueblos' sacred kivas....
- Intriguing acoustic effects have also been noted at sites in the Americas, from Anasazi kivas in New Mexico, to Chichen Itza on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
- Pueblo kivas were built long before the Catholics came.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Hopi kíva.
- get out of someone's face
- get outside of
- get over
- get over oneself
- get physical
- get real!
- get religion
- get-rich-quick
- get rid of
- get rooted
- get round (or around)
- get round to (or around to)
- get sick
- get someone down
- get someone going
- get someone nowhere
- get someone's goat
- get someone through
- get someone up
- get someone with child
- get someone wrong
- get something across
- get something down
- get something going
- get something into one's (or someone's) head