DCHP-1 Online
meetchwop [< Algonk.] Lab. 
n. a shelter, as a shack, hut, tent-frame, or wigwam.
See also: tilt (def. 1) wickiup
- 1933 We stuffed up the holes with our coats and caps and mitts and the little meetchwop began to get hot.
- 1936 (1955) Along with the uncovered framework . . . made of well-bleached whale ribs, and a couple of meetchwops, they tended to give a graveyard melancholy to the straggling village-end.
- 1933 We stuffed up the holes with our coats and caps and mitts and the little meetchwop began to get hot.