Dugout

Definition: Dugout

Dugout

Noun

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.

3. A fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dugout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Dugout

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Ship

Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue;

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Crosswords: Dugout

You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you (Bull Durham; writing credit: Ron Shelton.)

Listen, Lupus, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster)

The Lady of the Dugout (1918)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dakota Dugout (reference)

• Dugout Days : Untold Tales and Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Career of Billy Martin (reference)

• Dugout Jinx (Chip Hilton Sports Series, 8) (reference)

• More Tales from the Yankee Dugout (reference)

• Tales from the Cubs Dugout (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[A dugout, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[German dugout first aid station, World War I]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

PFC. Wiley Howington of Asheville, N.C., cleans the M1 he used in wiping out a Jap antiaircraft gun crew in a dugout at Munda. Credit: Library of Congress.

Seminole Indian and family dugout canoe, Miami, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Minnesota dugout. Credit: Library of Congress.

Homesteader's abandoned dugout. Custer County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

New storage dugout built by rehabilitation client. Old one in foreground. Sioux County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Faro Caudill [family] eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dugout house of Faro Caudill, homesteader with Mt. Allegro in the background, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

The "Babe" in a reflectice [sic] mode, snaped [sic] in the Wash [Washington, D.C.] dugout before the game--President Ban Johnson seems to enjoy the situation. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Central African Republic

On May 29, the Government closed its border with the DRC; however, a ferry and dugout canoes continued to cross the river frequently between the two countries. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

There reportedly was no known action taken against members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, or otherwise abusing the persons in the following 1999 cases: The October case of Pascal Kusehuka, secretary general of the PALU opposition party for Bandundu Province; the September case of human rights NGO activist Wetemwani Katembo Merikas; the September case of Francois Mpoyi Mukandu, the legal advisor of the governor of Eastern Kasai Province, Marcel Mpuanga Mindu, who also was an attorney, and Ditutu bin Bwebwe, a court clerk; the July case of Professor Kambaj Wa Kambaji; the July case of Jean Marie Kashils of the Agence Congolaise de Presse and Bienvenu Tshiela of Kasai Horizon Radio Television; the June case of the owner of a dugout canoe known as Motinga; the June case of journalists for the daily newspaper Tempete des Tropiques; the May case of Colonel Ndoma Moteke; the May case of Christian Badibangi, president of the opposition party Union Socialist Congolaise; the May case of eight members of the opposition Parti Lumumbiste Unifie (PALU) party; the April case of Lambert Edimba; the March case of a journalist; the March case of two female money changers; the February case of Professor Tshibangu Kalala; the February case of Luyinumu Lelo Koko and Jonas Ndoko; the February case of Toussaint Muhavu Shankulu; the January case of newspaper publisher Thierry Kyalumba; and the January case of human rights activists Christophe Bintu and Bienvenu Kasole. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "dugout": concrete dugout ♦ dugout canoe. Additional references.

Albanian

strehim i lojtarëve rezervë, strehim (accommodation, billet, bunker, casemate, coverture, housing, quarterage, refuge, resettlement, resort, shelter), pirogë (piragua), kamare (niche, recess), gropë (cave, cavity, dint, excavation, hole, hollow, pocket, sink, socket, sump, trough). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ветеран (old war-horse, vet, veteran), землянка, лодка от издълбан дънер. (various references)

Chinese 

独木舟 (Canoe, Canoes). (various references)

Czech

zákop (entrenchment, trench), vydlabaný èlun, kryt v zákopech. (various references)

Farsi 

پناهگاه موقتی , کنده شده , حفرشده . (various references)

Finnish

korsu. (various references)

French

pirogue (dugourt canoe). (various references)

German

Bunker (bin, brig, bunker, clink, dugouts, pen, pillbox, shelter, silo). (various references)

Greek 

πρόχωμα (banking, breast work, dike, earthwork, outwork, parapet, vallasion), λάκκοσ (cesspool, fossa, pit, puddle, sump). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחפורת (mine, sap, shaft, trench), שוח�" (natant, pit). (various references)

Hungarian

fedezék (blindage, booby-hutch, cover, dug-out, entrenchment, foxhole, shelter), fatörzsből vájt csónak, óvóhely (air-raid shelter, bombshelter, bunker, cove, refuge, shelter). (various references)

Italian

canoa (canoe, pirogue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

壕 (air-raid shelter, trench), 塹壕 (trench). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざ�"�"う (trench), �"う (a little, actions committed in a former life, air-raid shelter, be proud, Buddhist karma, fine feathers, go, issue, long ages, moat, number, threat, trench, writing brush). (various references)

Korean 

참호. (various references)

Manx

finneig (canoe, capsule, cock boat, mite, shell), billey snauee. (various references)

Pig Latin

ugoutday.(various references)

Portuguese

canoa (boat, canoe). (various references)

Russian 

челнок (canoe, shuttle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zemunica, čamac od izdubljenog drveta. (various references)

Spanish

refugio subterráneo (bunker). (various references)

Swedish

skyddsrum (bomb shelter, bombshelter, dug-out, funk hole, shelter), kanot av urholkad trädstam. (various references)

Turkish

yeraltı sığınağı, ağaç kütüğünden kayık. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dugout": dugouts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dugout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bugout, Daguet, Dijoud, Doungous, Doutoum, Dufoix, dugat, dugour, Dugue, Duguet, Durgut, dutout, Touggourt. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gout.

-3 letters: dog, dot, dug, duo, god, got, gut, oud, out, tod, tog, tug, udo.

-4 letters: do, go, od, to, ut.

+1 letter: dugouts.

+2 letters: doughnut, outguide.

+3 letters: doughnuts, groundnut, groundout, outargued, outguided, outguides, outgunned.

+4 letters: groundnuts, groundouts, outdueling, outfigured, outguessed, outguiding, outlaughed, undoubting.

+5 letters: groundburst, outbuilding, outduelling, outstudying, underbought.