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1. A shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside.
   - dugout, pit-house, pit house

Derived forms: pithouses

Type of: abode, domicil [rare], domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, shelter

Encyclopedia: Pithouse