Hovel

Quick meaning: Hovel is a noun meaning An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
2. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
3. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
4. (transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
5. (slang, archaic, Midwestern US) A straitjacket.

Example Sentences

The poor are hovell'd and hustled together.

To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.

'Behold! once more I kiss thee, and by that kiss I give to thee dominion over sea and earth, over the peasant in his hovel, over the monarch in his palace halls, and cities crowned with towers, and those who breathe therein.'

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.

Word Forms

• hovels
• hoveling
• hovelling
• hoveled
• hovelled

Synonyms for hovel

Depending on context, synonyms include shack, shanty, hut, hutch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hutch, hut, shack, shanty, dump, hole.

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