noun.
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or for protecting produce, farming implements, etc., from the weather.
noun.
A poor cottage; a small mean house; a wretched habitation.
noun.
A canopy with hanging sides over a statue; a niche for a statue.
noun.
In porcelain manufacturing, a cone-shaped brick structure surrounded by the ovens or firing-kilns.
To put in or as in a hovel; house meanly.
To form like an open hovel or shed: as, to hovel a chimney. See hoveling.