Definition of Hoel
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.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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- An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
- A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
- In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
- To put in a hovel; to shelter.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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