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hovel

[huhv-uhl, hov-] / ˈhʌv əl, ˈhɒv- /


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Each morning Dick would walk through a barbed-wire-and-wooden-post fence and across a grassy meadow to a cabin he called the Hovel, where he did much of his writing.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2010

Krawczyk, a partner at law firm Kravit Hovel & Krawczyk in Milwakuee, which represents the districts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2010

Deprived of the sweet resource of the Hovel," Mrs. Brook continued, "we shall each, from about the tenth on, forage somehow or other for ourselves.

From The Awkward Age by James, Henry

So saying, she went into the Hovel and slammed the door.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Farjeon, Eleanor

The day on which Harvest was finished, and the corn safely "Hovelled" used to be called "Wheat Hovel Day."

From Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District by Dack, Charles




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