[syn: bunker, dugout]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dugout \Dug"out`\ (d[u^]g"out), n.
1. A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
A man stepped from his slender dugout. -- G. W.
Cable.
[1913 Webster]
2. A place dug out.
[1913 Webster]
3. A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
[Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dugout
n 1: 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, dugout, pirogue]
3: a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
[syn: bunker, dugout]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "dugout":
abri, air-raid shelter, antre, approach trench, asylum, bolt-hole,
bomb shelter, bombproof, bunker, burrow, cache, cave, cavern,
communication trench, concealment, corner, countermine, coupure,
cove, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole,
cyclone cellar, dark corner, den, ditch, double sap, earth,
entrenchment, fallout shelter, fire trench, flying sap,
fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, funk hole, gallery, grot, grotto,
hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, lair,
mine, moat, niche, nook, parallel, recess, refuge, retreat,
safety zone, sanctuary, sap, secret place, sewer, shelter,
slit trench, stash, storm cave, storm cellar, subterrane, subway,
trench, tunnel, undercovert, warren