Meaning of Hovel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
   derogatory
3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
4. A straitjacket.
   Midwestern-US, archaic, slang

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Examples

“'Behold! once more I kiss thee, and by that kiss I give⟳ to thee dominion over sea and earth, over the peasant in his hovel, over the monarch in his palace halls, and cities crowned with towers, and those who breathe⟳ therein.'”

“The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like⟳ a zareba, was an irregular ring⟳ of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.”

“I have⟳ to say⟳ it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come⟳ to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with the plumpitude of Your Sacrament; that’s to say⟳, with the plenitude of Your Divinity and Humanity.”

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