1. hovel - Noun
2. hovel - Verb
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
To put in a hovel; to shelter.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace
I realised that Nuto was quite right when he said that to live in a hovel or in a palace was one and the same thing, that blood is the same colour everywhere, and that everybody wants to be rich and in love and make their fortune. Cesare Pavese
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Jacqueline Cochran
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. Emily Brontë
Five of us squished together in what is effectively a two-bedroom, toy-strewn hovel. Source: Internet
Just because you can only pay $850 for an apartment instead of $1,100 in rent doesn’t mean you have to live in a hovel or share a room with cockroaches. Source: Internet