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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.
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