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dug⋅out

[duhg-out]
–noun
1. a boat made by hollowing out a log.
2. Baseball. a roofed structure enclosed on three sides and with the fourth side open and facing the playing field, usually with the floor below ground level, where the players sit when not on the field.
3. a rough shelter or dwelling formed by an excavation in the ground, in the face of a bank, in the side of a hill, etc., esp. one used by soldiers.

Origin:
1715–25, Americanism; n. use of v. phrase dug out
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dug·out   (dŭg'out')   
n.  
  1. A boat or canoe made of a hollowed-out log.

  2. A pit dug into the ground or on a hillside and used as a shelter.

  3. Baseball Either of two usually sunken shelters at the side of a field where the players stay while not on the field.

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Word Origin & History

dugout 
"canoe," 1722, Amer.Eng., from dug, pp. of dig + out. Baseball sense is first recorded 1914, from c.1855 meaning of "rough shelter."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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