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dug-out

n. (alternative spelling of dugout English)

Usage examples of "dug-out".

She wrote little about herself, but went into raptures about the great city, about its reviving ruins, about the women, girls and youths who had come here from all parts of the country to rebuild the city, living in cellars, gun emplacements, blindages and bunkers left after the fighting, and in railway cars, plywood shacks and dug-outs.

Headquarters lay out in the Ayette road at first until an old Boche dug-out, not completed, was found farther up the road, and then they got into it.

After walking a couple of hundred yards you come to a muddy place much cut up, surrounded by gabions, cellars, platforms, and dug-outs, on which large cast-iron cannon are mounted and cannon-balls lie piled in orderly heaps.

We descended into the ravine, on both slopes of which, amidst thick growths of wild raspberry, lungwort and willow-herb and the raw smell of decaying leaves and mushrooms, the dug-outs were built.

The walls of the dug-out were anchored by posts and paneled with walers of white oak to keep the soil from collapsing inward.

Constructed like the fire trenches and occupied by the local reserves who live in deep dug-outs.

A real cattleguard, consisting of ten or fifteen steel rails or two-by-fours set six to eight inches apart and laid across a dug-out section of road, kept cows, afraid of plunging a hoof between the rails and maybe breaking a leg, from crossing.

He'd no idea how to construct a fallout shelter but he'd make something even if it was only on the lines of the World War II dug-out air-raid shelters.

I stared at it in amazement, the dug-out shelf above him where he had placed matches, a row of batteries, and a battery-powered fluorescent lamp that cast the only light in the room—.