Hovel

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  • noun. A small, miserable dwelling.
  • noun. An open, low shed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
  • noun. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
  • noun. A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
  • transitive verb. To put in a hovel; to shelter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
  • noun. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
  • noun. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
  • verb. To put in a hovel; to shelter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  • Word Usage
    "On the whole I'd say my hovel is no filthier than any other person of the bookseller persuasion."
    Form
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Lovell  shovel  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alley  barn  barrack  building  bungalow  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Augean stables  burrow  coop  crib  dump  
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    verb-form