Usually means: Small, cramped, dilapidated dwelling places.
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  5. hovels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hovels: Wiktionary
  7. hovels: Dictionary.com
  8. hovels: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hovel)

noun:  An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
noun:  (derogatory) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
noun:  In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
verb:  (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
verb:  (transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
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