semi-dug-out

Updated: May 15, 2025

But all sorts of people are mingled promiscuously here, for, soon after this incident, two young men come running across the prairie from a semi-dug-out, who prove to be college graduates from "the Hub," who are rooting prairie here in Nebraska, preferring the free, independent life of a Western farmer to the restraints of a position at an Eastern desk.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran