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hovel 音標拼音: [h'ʌvəl] n. 小屋,雜物間,家畜小屋 小屋,雜物間,家畜小屋 hovel n 1: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [ synonym: { hovel}, { hut}, { hutch}, { shack}, { shanty}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Porcelain Manuf.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. -- Knight. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] The poor are hoveled and hustled together. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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