hovel

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

hovels

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

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

hovels

V_ing/Gerund

hoveling

V_ed/pp

hovellinghoveled

1.
(transitive)To put in a hovel; to shelter.
2.
(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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Đồng nghĩa

shack shanty

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Nguồn gốc từ

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