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- noun Plural form of
dugout .
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USATODAY. com - Networks find on-air playoffs talent waiting in dugouts
USATODAY.com - Networks find on-air playoffs talent waiting in dugouts 2005
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Networks find on-air playoffs talent waiting in dugouts
USATODAY.com - Networks find on-air playoffs talent waiting in dugouts 2005
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Men died in dugouts who had never been near the line at all, so deadly was this gas.
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There is nothing but shell holes and trenches and barbed wire where our men lived in dugouts with the rats and the lice.
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They had a chance of taking prisoners at Longueval, where they rummaged in German dugouts after the line had been taken by the 15th Scottish Division and the 3d, and they brought back a number of enormous Bavarians who were like the
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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Those German soldiers were great letter-writers, and men sitting in wet ditches, in "fox-holes," as they called their dugouts, "up to my waist in mud," as one of them described, scribbled pitiful things which they hoped might reach their people at home, as a voice from the dead.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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They fortified themselves in German dugouts and waited in siege, these dour men of the North.
My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915
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I have seen dogs lying dead on the field where the mascot of a battalion had run along with the men in a charge; dogs were found in German dugouts, and one dog adopted by a corps staff had refused to leave the side of his fallen master, a German officer, until the body was removed.
My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915
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A few excavations in the earth -- designated "dugouts" -- roofed with waterproof sheets, afforded moderate protection against the weather, but none against shrapnel, splinter, or bomb.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912
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Two long "dugouts" - i. e., trunks of trees hollowed out in the centre, were procured.
A southern girl in '61 : the war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter, 1905
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