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Foxhole   /fˈɑkshˌoʊl/   Listen
Foxhole

noun
1.
A small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire.  Synonym: fox hole.






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"Foxhole" Quotes from Famous Books



... girl, not really seeing her. A radio without power. He remembered a long talk with Dr. John Gordon of the Spindrift staff about the principles of radio. Dr. Gordon had sketched a circuit that needed no power, and then had told Rick of how American ingenuity had produced what soldiers called a "foxhole radio." ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... to the job for me," said Marwood, as they turned away, and kept along the hedge-row; "I love to meet a man sword to sword; not to pop at him from a foxhole." ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore



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