Read full poem →Beneath the oak which breaks away the wind,
And bushes close in snow-like hovel warm;
There tainted mutton wastes upon the coals,
Dictionary Entry
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “hovel”
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Read full poem →And left us in eclipse.
The shepherd in the hovel milks,
Where builds the little wren,
Read full poem →The stranger might smile but I heeded him not,
The hovel was ready to screen from a shower,
And the book in my pocket was read in an hour.
Read full poem →He talks to none but wends his silent way,
And finds a hovel at the close of day,
Or under any hedge his house is made.
Read full poem →I watched them stumble
Into some crazy hovel, too beat to grumble;
Saw them file inward, slipping from their backs
Read full poem →('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)