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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hovel \Hov"el\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hoveled}or {Hovelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hoveling} or {Hovelling}.] To put in a hovel; to shelter.
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. --Shak.
The poor are hoveled and hustled together. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hovel \Hov"el\, noun [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.
2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
3. (Porcelain Manuf.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. --Knight.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hovel
noun: 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 THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HOVEL, noun 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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