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1. Either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
    
2. A fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
   - bunker
    
3. 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
    
4. A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
   - dugout canoe, pirogue, piragua

Derived forms: dugouts

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

Part of: ballpark [N. Amer], park

Encyclopedia: Dugout