Usually means: Small, shabby, dilapidated dwelling place.
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  1. hovel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hovel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hovel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hovel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hovel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hovel, hovel: Wordnik
  7. hovel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hovel: Wiktionary
  9. hovel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hovel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hovel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hovel, hovel: Dictionary.com
  13. hovel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hovel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hovel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hovel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hovel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hovel: Rhymezone
  19. Hovel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hovel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hovel: Free Dictionary
  22. hovel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hovel: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Hovel: Legal dictionary

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  1. hovel: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hovel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hoveling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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