hovel
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weatherAn open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
» Nobody will buy such a hovel.
Значення
значень: 4An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
Unterstand
хлевxlev, амба́рambár, сара́йsaráj
(зневажливе)A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
Bruchbude, Baracke
хиба́раxibára, лачу́гаlačúga
In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
(Midwestern US, архаїчне, сленг)A straitjacket.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Приклади
речень: 6Nobody will buy such a hovel.
Is this the hovel you live in?
My house is a hovel.
I live in a hovel.
Tom lives in a hovel.
Переклади
мов: 6За значеннями 2
За значеннями 2
Походження
From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, buildingFrom Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”).
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