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hovel

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɒvəl/Part of speech nounSorted ehlovStarts with HEnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Word origin

From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”).

Used in a sentence

  • To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.
  • The poor are hovell'd and hustled together.

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