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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dugout
noun
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▪ After organising a group of locals and a dugout canoe, we set out on the week-long journey to Iau.
▪ As Hall departed for the dressing room, incensed Everton boss Howard Kendall gave him a tongue-lashing from the dugout.
▪ At one point, Darryl Strawberry emerged from the dugout with a bat in his hands.
▪ In the field we live in the same dugouts, wash in the same puddles.
▪ More often, though, they miss, hang a hard left, and return to the dugout.
▪ They gave him a standing ovation from the dugout and promised to present him with the game ball.
▪ Towards midnight Weir came to the dugout.
▪ Watch any game in a crucial situation and you will see the catcher peering into his dugout before calling each pitch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dugout

Dugout \Dug"out`\ (d[u^]g"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.

  4. (Baseball) a structure on the edge of the playing field in foul territory, partly below ground and partly above ground, open toward the playing field but roofed and with the other three sides closed. It is typically long and narrow, having benches where the players may sit when not on the playing field; as, the foul ball was tipped into the dugout.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dugout

also dug-out, "canoe," 1722, American English, from dug, past participle of dig (v.) + out (adv.). Baseball sense is first recorded 1914, from c.1855 meaning of "rough shelter."

Wiktionary
dugout

n. 1 (cx nautical Italian) a canoe made from a hollowed-out log 2 a pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire 3 a sunken shelter at the side of a baseball or football (soccer) field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.

WordNet
dugout
  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Dugout

Dugout may refer to:

  • Dugout (shelter) - underground shelter
  • Dugout (boat) - a synonym for logboat
  • Dugout (smoking) - a marijuana container
  • Dugout, West Virginia
Dugout (baseball)

In baseball, the dugout is a team's bench area and is located in foul territory between home plate and either first or third base. There are two dugouts, one for the home team and one for the visiting team. In general, the dugout is occupied by all players not prescribed to be on the field at that particular time, as well as coaches and other personnel authorized by the league. The players' equipment ( gloves, bats, batting helmets, catcher's equipment, etc.) is usually stored in the dugout.

In baseball, the manager, with the help of his assistants, will dictate offensive strategy from the dugout by sending hand signals to the first and third base coaches. To avoid detection, the first and third base coaches will then translate those hand signals into their own set of hand signals and then send them on to the batter and runners.

Dugout (shelter)

A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house, earth lodge, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Dugouts can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, or dug into a hillside. They can also be semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out. These structures are one of the most ancient types of human housing known to archeologists, and the same methods have evolved into modern " earth shelter" technology.

Dugouts may also be temporary shelters constructed as an aid to specific activities, e.g., concealment and protection during warfare or shelter while hunting.

Usage examples of "dugout".

But for the moment there were no dugouts, only the African troops who melted away under fire like multicolored wax dolls, and each day hundreds of new orphans, Arab and French, awakened in every corner of Algeria, sons and daughters without fathers who would now have to learn to live without guidance and without heritage.

But no sooner were they afloat than a savage growling from one of the apes directly ahead of him in the dugout attracted his attention to a shivering and cowering figure that trembled between him and the great anthropoid.

I had breakfast with the 7th Battalion officers in their dugout by the roadside near the cavalry billets, and then started off to join the 8th Battalion which was going to attack that morning.

He surrenders his post to a comrade, and crawls down into his bombproof dugout almost reluctantly, for the long day of inactive waiting has commenced.

Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.

We went out and explored the city in the fading light of evening, drifting the gray Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.

Agee trotted smilingly into the dugout and the Ebbets faithful shouted themselves hoarse all over again.

He followed their orders and smoked his dugout in gopherwood when they returned it to him.

A FEELING of peace settled over Jim Munson as the dugout rounded the looping bend in Moolu River that marked the boundary of the Ranga elephant country.

As holding the line required little fighting, the industrious Germans under the stiff bonds of discipline had plenty of time for sinking deep dugouts and connecting galleries under their first line and for elaborating their communication trenches and second line, until what had once been peaceful farming land now consisted of irregular welts of white chalk crossing fields without hedges or fences, whose sweep had been broken only by an occasional group of farm buildings of a large proprietor, a plot of woods, or the village communities where the farmers lived and went to and from their farms which were demarked to the eye only by the crop lines.

Those shell-threshed parapets of the first-line German trenches which appeared to represent complete destruction had not filled in all the doorways of dugouts which big shells had failed to reach.

A series of big dugouts, of houses and caves with walls of sandbags, back of the first British line near Carnoy was a focus of communication trenches and the magnet to the men hastening from bullet-swept, shell-swept spaces to security.

By the time the ball lands, the first and third basemen are closing in on the mound like bailiffs, and Art Howe is on the top of the dugout steps.

Kori removed his paddle and one of the larger ones, struggling slightly with the latter, and his father pushed the dugout along the sand until it glided onto the glasslike surface of the harbor.

Every play Hatty made, including throws he took from other infielders, he came back to the dugout and discussed with Wash.