dugout
pronunciation
How to pronounce dugout in British English: UK [ˈdʌgaʊt]
How to pronounce dugout in American English: US [ˈdʌɡˌaʊt]
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- Noun:
- either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
- a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
- a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
Word Origin
- dugout (n.)
- 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."
Example
- 1. A woman moves her dugout canoe slowly along the shore .
- 2. Dugout canoes are used to transport fresh goods to the market .
- 3. Dugout canoe that is stabilized by one or two outriggers .
- 4. We saw kingfishers while indigenous fishermen paddled by in dugout canoes , their wicker baskets filled with river oysters .
- 5. Out on the water , brightly painted dugout canoes cut through the waves on their way out to fish as they have done for centuries .