HOVEL

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.

2.
n.

A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

3.
n.

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight.

4.
v.

To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.


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