Definition of Hovel

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Definition of Hovel

Hovel

An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

To put in a hovel; to shelter.

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Hovel Quotations

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
Jacqueline Cochran

Hovel Translations

hovel in Norwegian is skur
hovel in Swedish is kyffe, skjul

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