[ noun ] small crude shelter used as a dwelling <noun.artifact>
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.
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. --Shak.
The poor are hoveled and hustled together. --Tennyson.
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.
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.
Riyad's home is a four-room concrete hovel that houses 18 people.
His broadside against the affliction begins this way: "Is it really a national tragedy if motorists see one fewer Kansas wheat field, one fewer acre of Utah sand, or one fewer Appalachian hovel?" Of course it isn't.