Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dugout"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dugout \Dug"out`\, n.
1. A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.]
A man stepped from his slender dugout. -- G. W.
Cable.
2. A place dug out.
3. A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
[Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dugout
n 1: either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball
diamond where the players and coaches sit during the
game
2: a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log [syn:
{dugout canoe}, {pirogue}]
3: a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
[syn: {bunker}]
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