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noun

Dugout n.

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. (U.S.) "A man stepped from his slender dugout."

A place dug out.

A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation. (Western U.S.)

(Baseball) A structure on the edge of the playing field in foul territory, partly below ground and partly above ground, open toward the playing field but roofed and with the other three sides closed. It is typically long and narrow, having benches where the players may sit when not on the playing field; as, the foul ball was tipped into the dugout.

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Etymology of 'Dugout'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... for just then the door of a dugout in a small trench opened, and two men came out with lanterns. It was evidently the corporal of the guard who had come out with a private to ...

— Army Boys on the Firing Line - or, Holding Back the German Drive • Homer Randall

... next — Hal was to go; two squares to the right — for three minutes and two the French fire was to be remitted — Chester must travel. There were two other small squares to be spared for five minutes to provide for help which might have been gained from the refugees' dugout. ...

— The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders • Clair W. Hayes

... dugout, driven by half-a-dozen paddles in the hands of lusty natives, came racing down stream. As the canoe drew abreast of us, the paddlers chanting a barbaric chorus, there was a sudden swirl in the water and the object which I had taken for a log abruptly dropped ...

— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... rest of the morning and they used ammunition from the same lot and every man knew what might happen any minute and every man was in his exact position for every shot and nobody happened to think about hiding in a dugout and putting a long string on ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... question abruptly, like one throwing down some troublesome and heavy thing that he has labored gallantly to conceal. It was the first word that she had spoken since they had taken refuge from their close-pressing pursuers in the dugout that some old-time homesteader had been driven away from ...

— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden

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