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/dˈəgˌaʊt/ Listen

Dugout

noun

Either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game.

A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log. Synonyms: dugout canoe, pirogue.

A fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground. Synonym: bunker.

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"Dugout" Quotes from Famous Books

... departed from the camping site while the day was young. They pushed their long, narrow, dugout canoes into the water, clambered aboard, took up the short paddles and pushed to the other side which had not, as yet, been despoiled of its buried treasures. There they fell to work probing the sand with sharpened sticks and when it yielded easily to the thrust they dug with their hands ...

— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller

... In a dugout sprawled Top-Sergeant Mahan,—formerly of Uncle Sam's regular army, playing an uninspiring game of poker with Sergeant Dale of his company and Sergeant Vivier of the French infantry. The Frenchman was slow in learning ...

— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune

Words linked to "Dugout" : bunker, foxhole, fortification, pirogue, shelter, park, ballpark, canoe, funk hole, dugout canoe, fox hole, munition