topek

English

Noun

topek (plural topeks)

An Eskimo house made of material other than snow, especially one having walls of turf, driftwood, rock, or skin, and a roof of seal or walrus skins. In Alaska it is often partially underground.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “topek”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)