Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hovel

Hovel , noun

[Old English hovel, hovil, prob. a dim. from Anglo-Saxon hof house; akin to Dutch & German hof court, yard, Icelandic hof temple; compare Prov. English hove to take shelter, heuf shelter, home.]

1.
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. — Brande & C
2.
A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
3.
(Porcelain Manufacturing) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. — Knight

Hovel , transitive verb

To put in a hovel; to shelter.
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. — Shakespeare
The poor are hoveled and hustled together. — Tennyson