The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TEEPEE
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More clues leading to the result TEEPEE
- Picked up drink to go in tent
- Note fencing equipment in tent
- Township in short suggests this temporary accommodation
- Sheath of the sword found in tent
- Spooner’s exercises set up on the reservation
- Tent top’s ends are articulated
- Tribal elder initially used to 25 across native dwelling
- Tent top’s tips pronounced
- One could live in this empty township, we hear
- . Knock down every other steel sword in tent
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What does TEEPEE mean?
TEEPEE verb- To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.