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Meanings of earth lodge in English

Russian
землянка
Spanish
arquitectura excavada
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Shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.

        землянка
        Synonyms
        Examples for "dugout"
        Examples for "dugout"
        1
        Nesis had been carried back in one dugout, Ambrose in the other.
        The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
        2
        I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good.
        A Farewell to Arms
        3
        Three trips up and down the hill conveyed it to the dugout.
        Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest
        4
        The sergeant and I rushed into the ruins of our machine-gun dugout.
        Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
        5
        With a wild yell it burst the door of the dugout open.
        The Way of the Wind
        1
        "At a moment of such gravity, she only thinks of her being dull by herself, alone here in the pit-house without me or Tatiana."
        Android Karenina
        1
        With Fayaz in the lead, they began running toward the mud hut.
        The apostle
        2
        Back at the mud hut, Schapelle is summoned to an interrogation room.
        News.com.au
        3
        Five meters outside the mud hut, the carnage was instantly evident.
        The apostle
        4
        The sunlight fell beautifully on a long mud hut with a grass roof.
        Magic seeds
        5
        When we stopped, it was before the door of a little mud hut.
        Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
        Usage of earth lodge in English
        1
        The ceremony generally took place in a circular dwelling known as an " earth lodge."
        Indian Story and Song, from North America
        2
        Dead bodies in rough boxes lie on the ground on a knoll not far from our house, and near by is an old-style earth lodge.
        The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 03, March, 1896
        3
        People know that the buffaloes live in earth lodges; so they never dance the buffalo dance vainly.
        Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
        4
        They saw the earth lodges as of old, thickly clustered along the flats of the Missouri, among their rustling maize-fields.
        Old Indian Days
        5
        The sides of this funnel were rugged rock, and in the banks of earth lodged here and there upon projections, a scrubby vegetation grew.
        For the Term of His Natural Life