1. Either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
   "The manager called the pitcher back to the dugout"
    
2. A shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside
   "Dugouts are one of the most ancient types of human housing known to archeologists, and the same methods have evolved into modern ‘earth shelter’ technology";
   - pithouse, pit-house, pit house
    
3. A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
   "The indigenous people navigated the river in dugout canoes";
   - dugout canoe, pirogue, piragua
    
4. A reinforced shelter, typically underground or partially underground, for protection or storage
   "The baseball team huddled in the dugout between innings";
   - bunker

Derived forms: dugouts

Type of: abode, canoe, domicil [rare], domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, fortification [rare], habitation, home, munition, shelter

Part of: ballpark [N. Amer], park

Encyclopedia: Dugout, West Virginia