hovel in English

noun
1
a small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling.
Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
2
a conical building enclosing a kiln.
The HOVEL acts as a chimney; taking away the smoke, creating draught and protecting the oven inside from the weather and uneven draughts.

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1. Aladdin's Hovel: A run-down hovel where Aladdin spent most of his young life, with his monkey Abu

2. What a hovel he lives in!

3. The bear moved into the gardener's hovel.

4. She's back in the old hovel already.

5. From the same materials one man builds palaces, hovel.

6. The flounder put them back in the old hovel.

7. It's very uncomfortable living in a dirty hovel like ours.

8. The guy who owned the hovel was named Mr Bartles.

9. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.

10. You now have a particle - based fire effect for your hovel!

11. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovel.

12. I don't know how you can bear to live in this hovel.

13. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door hovel.

14. And I promise you something: I won't let the house get into a hovel.

15. He thought of Hob dying in his hovel, his wife frightened of the future.

16. Synonyms for Bothy include hut, cabin, shed, shelter, cottage, house, shack, shanty, hovel and whare

17. If you are on your own in a hovel it is nothing other than miserable.

18. I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel.

19. Synonyms for Bustee include slum, ghetto, hovel, favela, Cabbagetown, jhuggi, purlieu, rookery, shanty and shanty town

20. INSIDE his hovel of branches and rags, a pauper called Badshah Kale keeps a precious object.

21. Never shall he be wed to the child a wretched soul living in this miserable hovel.

22. Now one summer evening, as she was trotting, full of smiles as ever, along the high road to her hovel, what should she see but a big black pot lying in the ditch!