hovel

5 definitions found

hovel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hovel \Hov"el\, n. [OE. hovel, hovil, prob. a dim. fr. AS. hof
     house; akin to D. & G. hof court, yard, Icel. hof temple; cf.
     Prov. E. hove to take shelter, heuf shelter, home.]
     1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce,
        etc., from the weather. --Brande & C.
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     2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
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     3. (Porcelain Manuf.) A large conical brick structure around
        which the firing kilns are grouped. --Knight.
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  Hovel \Hov"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoveledor Hovelled; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Hoveling or Hovelling.]
     To put in a hovel; to shelter.
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           To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. --Shak.
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           The poor are hoveled and hustled together. --Tennyson.
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hovel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hovel
      n 1: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel,
           hut, hutch, shack, shanty]

hovel - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  HOVEL. A place used by husbandmen to set their ploughs, carts, and other 
  farming utensils, out of the rain and sun. Law Latin Dict. A shed; a 
  cottage; a mean house. 
  
  

hovel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "hovel":
     Augean stables, burrow, coop, crib, dump, hole, hut, hutch,
     pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, rookery, shack, shanty,
     slum, stable, sty, tenement, the slums, tumbledown shack, warren