topek

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as tupik.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An Eskimo house made of material other than snow, esp. one having walls of turf, driftwood, rock, or skin, and a roof of skins of the walrus or seal. In Alaska it is often partially underground and covered with timber and turf. Topeks are also used by Indians of the lower Yukon region.