What does "hovel" mean?
Hovel: A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
Additional senses
- 2.(Porcelain Manuf.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight.
- 3.To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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