Also 8 wickopick, 9 wickopy, wickaby, wickup, wikop, wicup. [American Indian (Cree wikupiy, etc.).] a. The leatherwood or moosewood of N. America, Dirca palustris; also, the basswood or American linden, Tilia americana. b. An American name for species of willow-herb (Epilobium): distinctively Indian or herb w.
1778. J. Carver, Trav. N. Amer., xix. 499. The Wickopick or Suckwick appears to be a species of the white wood,… distinguished … by a peculiar quality in the bark, which when pounded and moistened … becomes … of the consistence … of size.
1837. P. H. Gosse, in Life (1890), 106. The tall wickup plants with which the ground was … covered. [note, Or ‘wickaby,’ the leather plant (Dirca palustris), a shrub common in the Canadian woods.]
1888. Cornh. Mag., Oct., 373. He will be attracted by the whahoo and the wicopy.
