blindage

1. (military, historical) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.Examples: "A blindage may also be formed by covering the space between two traverses with beams, hurdles, earth, & c ."; "In order that the reader may appreciate what a ruined blindage looked like and with what horrors its destruction was attended, the following report of Sapper Peter Oleinik, of the Kwantung Sapper Company, is published in full:"; "Blindage covering the tops of saps could simply consist of sandbags, or a layer of fascines laid over the crest of the parapet."historical

2. (military) A deep dugout, often equipped with bunks and other fittings.Examples: "There literally was left no space to step foot in the whole blindage: it was so choked with soldiers up to the very entrance."; "The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice)."; ". At first, I thought of staying in a blindage."