hovel

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb

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[edit] Etymology

Likely a diminutive form of the Old English hof (“‘house’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒvəl

[edit] Noun

hovel (plural hovels)

1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

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to hovel (third-person singular simple present hovels, present participle hoveling, simple past and past participle hoveled)

1. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
   • To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn. -- Shakespeare
   • The poor are hoveled and hustled together. -- Alfred Tennyson