English

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.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
   • Shakespeare

     To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.

   • Alfred Tennyson

     The poor are hovelled and hustled together.