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Substantiv

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

Verb

  1. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

Exempel

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

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticiphoveledPerfektparticiphovelled
ImperfekthoveledImperfekthovelled
PresensparticiphovelingPresensparticiphovelling
PluralhovelsTredje person singular indicativ presenshovels

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