Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dugout
IPA transcription: [d'ʌɡ,aʊt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dugout
    Meaning: either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
Usage examples
  • However, I didn't see one local dugout canoe.
  • Now some twenty dugout canoes were surrounding the Nautilus.
  • Just then the dugout canoes drew nearer to the Nautilus, and a cloud of arrows burst over us.
  • Native dugout canoes are surrounding us, and in a few minutes we're sure to be assaulted by several hundred savages."
  • By canoe, by dugout, by pack-horse, and on foot, they planned to ascend the Fraser, and they mobbed the company for passage to Langley by the first steamer out from Victoria.