dugout

Players await there

A dugout is a shelter or space created by digging into the ground or a hillside, or by hollowing out a log.

The term most commonly refers to two things: a canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk, and the covered bench area in baseball where players and coaches sit when not on the field.

The team watched nervously from the dugout as the final inning began.

Dugouts also historically served as primitive shelters or military positions dug into embankments.

shelter

bunker

Reinforced subterranean stronghold

trenchLong narrow excavation
foxholeMilitary defensive excavation
earthworkConstructed soil structure

entrenchment · fortification · emplacement · sandbag · underground · military · wartime · concealment · protection · revetment

sports

bench

Shared seating surface

baseballBat-and-ball team sport
softballVariant with larger ball
bullpenRelief pitcher staging area

manager · coach · lineup · batboy · sunflower seeds · pine tar · batting helmet · cleats · on-deck circle · pitching

canoe

paddle

Flat-bladed water tool

pirogueHollowed-log watercraft
logboatCanoe from hollowed timber
outriggerBoat-balancing lateral float

hollowed · carving · adze · watercraft · poling · riverine · indigenous · handcrafted · cypress · cottonwood

indigenous

pithouse

Semi-underground primitive dwelling

kivaPueblo ceremonial chamber
subterraneanBeneath earth's surface
prehistoricBefore documented civilization

archaeological · ancestral · habitation · pueblo · settlement · hogan · shelter · winter · insulated · communal

dugout

bunker

bench

paddle

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