DUGOUT

Dugout

A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house, earth lodge, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Dugouts can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, or dug into a hillside. They can also be semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out.

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dugout

Noun

  1. a canoe made from a hollowed-out log
  2. a pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire
  3. a sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.
  4. a device used to smoke marijuana
  5. A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.


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