"soddie" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier, page 87",
          "text": "The soddie could be a freestanding structure made of slabs of sod cut by a plow, or it could be a dugout partially bored into the side of a hill or into the ground.",
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          "ref": "1995, Julie Garwood, Prince Charming, page 247",
          "text": "I learned how to make a soddie into a home.",
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          "ref": "2004, Marie Kramer, Grandchildren of the Pioneers, page 56",
          "text": "“Living in a soddy!” exclaimed Marie. “I didn't know there was anyone alive today who lived in a soddy. In our part of Nebraska, soddies went out of existence around the beginning of the 1900s.”\n“Oh, we had soddies for a long time after that,” said Robert. “This area was too poor to afford lumber for housing. Quite a few of us lived in soddies when we were kids.”",
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          "ref": "2010, Brenda K. Marshall, Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For, unnumbered page",
          "text": "It is better now that we do not live in the soddie, but to Mor it does not seem better.",
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        "(US, Canada, informal) A house constructed from blocks of sod, once common in the prairies of the United States and Canada."
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        "sod house"
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