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Cyclone pit   Listen
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Cyclone pit, Cyclone cellar  n.  A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. (Middle U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cyclone pit" Quotes from Famous Books



... roared, "Me for a cyclone cellar! This is a riot. You ain't in costume, either. Wonder ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan

... contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down ...
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... the world, make the best of the one you got, and, just 'cause he's yourn, you'll believe after a while you drew the only sweet orange in the grove and all the rest was sour. We all know that marriage is like the weather, mighty uncertain, but that ain't no reason for you to live in the cyclone cellar expecting the tornado to come. Set in the sun parlor and you'll git ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper



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