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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hovel \Hov"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoveled}or {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hovel
       n : small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: {hut}, {hutch},
            {shack}, {shanty}]
       [also: {hovelling}, {hovelled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HOVEL, n.  The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
  
          Twaddle had a hovel,
              Twiddle had a palace;
          Twaddle said:  "I'll grovel
              Or he'll think I bear him malice" --
      A sentiment as novel
          As a castor on a chalice.
  
          Down upon the middle
              Of his legs fell Twaddle
          And astonished Mr. Twiddle,
              Who began to lift his noddle.
          Feed upon the fiddle-
              Faddle flummery, unswaddle
      A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.]
                                                                    G.J.
  
  

















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