wicking (wiking)

[ Generally the traces of musk-cattle are in ma -like balls all melted together.... It struck me it would make capital wicking for Esquimaux lamps. C. F. Hall , Polar Expedition (1876), p. 161. wickiup, wicky-up (wik'i-up), n. [Amer. Ind.] An American Indian house or hut; especially, a rude hut, as of brushwood, such as is built by the Apaches and other low tribes: in dist i net i on from the tepee of skins stretched on stacked lodge-poles. Wickiups are built on the spot as required, and are not moved. After an hour's riding to the south, we came upon old Indian wicky - ups . Amer . Antiquarian , XII. 205.