Hovel

Noun

 * 1) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
 * 2) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
 * 3) In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

Verb

 * 1)  To put in a hovel; to shelter.
 * 2) * To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn. -- Shakespeare
 * 3) * The poor are hoveled and hustled together. -- Alfred Tennyson

Adjectives for Hovel
poverty-stricken; ruinous; lowly; wretched

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From hovel:, hovil:, hovylle:, diminutive of  hof:, from, from. Cognate with hof:,  Hof:,  hof:. Related to and.

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 * Russian: хибара,