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

One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [Written also hoveller.] [Prov. Eng.] G. P. R. James.

in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also hovelling.]

Useful, or usefully. [Obs.]

h a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances. Shovel hat, a broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, - - worn by some clergy of the English Church. [Colloq.] -- Shovelspur (Zoöl.), a flat, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, -- u…

Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

Shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]

The shoveler.

certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.

One who, or that which, shovels.

As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.

A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

The common sand shark. See under Snad.

Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [Obs. & R.] Gower.

To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house. "The boarded hovel." Cowper.

The shoveler. See Shoveler.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. [R.] The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, . . . which his master had given him. W. Irving. A few old battered crones of office. Beaconsfield.

A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. [Scot.]

A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.