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noun
- An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
- A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
- In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
verb (hovels, hoveling, hoveled)
- (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
- To thee with swine, and rogues forlon. -- Shakespeare
- The poor are hoveled and hustled together. -- Tennyson
Etymology: Likely a diminutive form of the Anglo-Saxon hof, or house.
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