verb
- past tense and past participle of hovel; to lodge or shelter in a hovel or cramped, squalid dwelling
Usage: archaic or literary; chiefly British
Examples
- The refugees were hovelled in makeshift shelters during the winter.
- They hovelled together in a small cottage on the edge of town.
- The poor families hovelled in cramped quarters near the factory.
- He hovelled in a dilapidated barn for several months.